| Ay…
| Oh…
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| El cante por bulerias
| The buleria singing
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| Como lo decia la Perla
| As Pearl used to say
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| Nadie lo dira en la via
| No one will say it on the road
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| Me tires que me tires
| you throw me you throw me
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| Que me tires a la tarralla
| that you throw me to the tarralla
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| He visto un bicho correr
| I have seen a bug run
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| Un bichito mu feo
| A very ugly little bug
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| Que por la orilla que da la playa
| That along the shore that faces the beach
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| Me voy con mis niños, maita
| I'm going with my children, maita
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| Quien me quiera llevar
| who wants to take me
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| Y ay mujer, ay mujer
| And oh woman, oh woman
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| Que fuente azul de arte
| what a blue art font
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| Como yo le grite al viento
| As I shout to the wind
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| Porque no puede aguantarse
| 'Cause you can't hold on
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| Las penas que lleva dentro
| The sorrows that you carry inside
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| Estoy queriendo una niña
| I'm wanting a girl
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| Y no me la da su mare
| And she does not give it to me her mother
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| Amor eterno ma jurao
| Eternal love ma jurao
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| Aunque le salgan los novios a pares
| Even if boyfriends come out in pairs
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| Asi son las cosas
| So are the things
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| Que me hacen pensar
| that make me think
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| Que hay que vivir la via
| that you have to live the road
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| Y sin descanso amar
| and relentlessly love
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| Ni el sol que lleva su carrera
| Not even the sun that carries his career
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| Que ni el pontifice romano
| That neither the Roman pontiff
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| Que a mi me quitara
| that he took away from me
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| Que yo te quiera
| That I love you
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| Tu eres negra y cataplausia
| You are black and cataplause
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| Tambien quieres un quitasol
| You also want a sunshade
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| Ay por que dices
| Oh why do you say
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| Que no venias
| that you did not come
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| Porque no tiene color
| because it has no color
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| Y eres negra y catapacia
| And you're black and catapacia
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| Tiemblo de via
| shiver of way
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| Siete porrazos
| seven blows
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| Que le van a dar
| What are they going to give you?
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| Que una negrita que le decia;
| That a black girl who told him;
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| Ay baila mi negra por caria
| Oh my black dances for caria
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| Machaca macha machaca
| pound pound pound
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| Que machaca el mechero
| that crushes the lighter
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| Que tu eres de La Habana
| That you are from Havana
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| Que yo soy habanero | that I am from Havana |