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Words by Christopher Columbus/Music by Doug Schroe
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October 09, 2025
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MP3 4.6 MB • 192 kbps • 3:22
Story behind the song
This song was composed on 11/8/2025. Christopher Columbus has been much maligned in recent decades by historical revisionists. So, I decided to go directly to his own diary in hopes of gaining better understanding of some of his motives. The three verses of this song are excerpts from three parts of the diary he wrote in 1493. They are his own words, although they have been translated into English, so theres always the possibility of something getting lost in the translation.
Lyrics
1 I reached the Indian Sea, where I discovered many islands, thickly peopled, of which I took
possession without resistance in the name of our most illustrious monarch, by public proclamation
and with unfurled banners. To the first of these islands, which is called by the Indians Guanahani, I
gave the name of the blessed Savior (San Salvador), relying upon whose protection I had reached
this as well as the other islands;
2 In all these islands there is no difference of physiognomy, of manner, or of language, but they all
clearly understand each other, a circumstance very propitious for the realization of what I conceive
to be the principal wish of our most serene King, namely, the conversion of the people to the holy
faith of Christ, to which indeed, as far as I can judge, they are very adorable and well-disposed
3 These great and marvelous results are not to be attributed to any merit of mine but to the holy
Christian faith and to the piety and religion of our sovereigns; for that which the unaided intellect
of man could not compass, the spirit of God has granted to human exertions, for God is wont to
hear the prayers of His servants who love His precepts even to the performance of apparent
impossibilities. Thus it has happened to me in the present instance, who have accomplished a task
to which the powers of mortal men had never hitherto attained.
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