We plunged on the ruthless invader,
And swam in the hell of the fight!
Our noble, chivalric Najira,
Over rock, through defile and ravine,
Wherever the danger was darkest,
Wherever a foeman was seen,
Led the charge, as, in old, Alvarado
And Cortez, again and again,
Led the Spaniard to conquest and glory
Over many a Mexican plain.