Adeus Guiné (Portuguese Colonial Song)

Lyrics
Goodbye Guinea I'll leave you
My mission is accomplished.
I say goodbye to you
Guinea you know very well
how i feel for my
how i feel for my
I miss you so much.
think of child
i have, but i have with faith
in God hope
in God hope
Beings always lead.
goodbye guinea
I have my duty already done
I'm not sorry
so much for you to fight
goodbye guinea
You will always be Portugal
But if your evil grows
I come back to save you
it was on the mainland
I swore by my life
fight firmly
fight firmly
for the dear homeland
when i leave you
I miss me
because i will hug
because i will hug
My mother and my father
goodbye guinea
I have my duty already done
I'm not sorry
so much for you to fight
goodbye guinea
You will always be Portugal
But if your evil grows
I'm coming back to save you.
Thinking of a child,
I do, but I do with faith.
in God hope,
in God hope
beings always guinea
when i leave you
I miss me
because i will hug
because i will hug
My mother and my father
goodbye guinea
I have my duty already done
I'm not sorry
so much for you to fight
goodbye guinea
You will always be Portugal
But if your evil grows
I'm coming back to save you.
Fighting in the colony began in 1956, when Amílcar Cabral founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). At first, PAIGC organised a series of strikes by urban workers, especially those working in the port and river transport. But on 3 August 1959, fifty striking dockworkers were killed, and after this, the PAIGC changed strategy, avoiding public demonstrations and concentrating instead on organising the rural peasants. In 1961, after a purely political campaign for independence had made little progress, the PAIGC adopted guerrilla tactics.
While heavily outnumbered by Portuguese troops (approximately 30,000 Portuguese to some 10,000 guerrillas), the PAIGC had safe havens over the border in Senegal and Guinea, both recently independent of French rule. The conflict in Portuguese Guinea between the PAIGC guerrillas and the Portuguese Army was the most intense and damaging of the Portuguese Colonial War, and several communist countries supported the guerrillas with weapons and military training.
In 1972 Cabral set up a government in exile in Conakry, the capital of neighbouring Guinea. He was assassinated there outside his house, on 20 January 1973.
By 1973 the PAIGC controlled most of the interior of the country, while the coastal and estuary towns, including the main population and economic centres remained under Portuguese control. The PAIGC guerrillas declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973, in the town of Madina do Boe in the southeasternmost area of the territory, near the border with neighbouring Guinea.
After the Carnation Revolution military coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974, the new revolutionary leaders of Portugal and the PAIGC signed an accord in Algiers, in which Portugal agreed after a series of diplomatic meetings to remove all troops by the end of October and to officially recognize the government of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau controlled by the PAIGC, on 26 August 1974.[35] Demobilized by the departing Portuguese military authorities after the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the independence of Portuguese Guinea, a total of 7,447 Guinea-Bissauan African soldiers who had served in Portuguese native commando forces and militia were summarily executed by the PAIGC. Marcelino da Mata, a Portuguese Army officer born in Portuguese Guinea, known for bravery and heroism in the Portuguese Colonial War, who had participated in 2412 commando operations and became the most decorated Portuguese military officer in the history of the Portuguese Army, managed to escape this fate only because he was in mainland Portugal for medical care.