Balada para Martin Fierro. Compositor Ariel Martinez.

El gaucho Martín Fierro, un gaucho trabajador de las pampas bonaerenses, que vive con su mujer y dos hijos, es reclutado forzosamente para servir en un fortín e integrar las milicias que luchaban defendiendo la frontera argentina contra los indígenas, dejando desamparada a su familia. Durante años sufre penurias en los fortines —malas condiciones, hambre, frío, trato abusivo de sus superiores, los castigos estacados, el no recibir su sueldo— hasta que decide escapar después de tres años y desertar del servicio.

El gaucho Martín Fierro, a working gaucho from the Buenos Aires pampas, who lives with his wife and two children, is forcibly recruited to serve in a fort and join the militias that fought to defend the Argentine border against the indigenous leaving his family helpless. For years he suffered hardships in the forts —bad conditions, hunger, cold, abusive treatment from his superiors, staked punishments, and not receiving his salary— until he decided to escape after three years and desert the service.