| Veinte años y entre palmeras
| Twenty years and between palm trees
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| Los cuerpos como banderas
| bodies as flags
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| Noche huateque y danzon
| Night huateque and danzon
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| La orquesta tocaba un son
| The orchestra played a son
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| De selva ardiente y caprina
| Of burning jungle and caprine
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| Del cielo un gran frenesi y
| From heaven a great frenzy and
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Tus senos carne de anón
| Your breasts flesh of sugar apple
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| Tu boca una bendición
| your mouth a blessing
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| De guanabana madura
| Of ripe soursop
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| Y era tu fina cintura
| And it was your thin waist
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| La misma de aquel danzón
| The same one from that danzón
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Tu pelo jibaro y fiero
| Your jibaro and fierce hair
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| Una manigua cubana para mi amor guerrillero
| A Cuban jungle for my guerrilla love
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Tus pies dejaban la estera
| Your feet left the mat
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| Y se escapaba tu saya
| And your saya was escaping
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| Buscando la guardarraya
| looking for the guardrail
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| Que al ver tu talle tan fino
| That seeing your waist so fine
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| Las cañas azucareras
| the sugar canes
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| Se echaban por el camino
| They lay down the road
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| Para que tú las molieras
| for you to grind
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| Como si fueses molino
| as if you were a windmill
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| La luna es un tiburon
| the moon is a shark
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| Que va tragando anilina
| that is swallowing aniline
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Después el amanecer
| after sunrise
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| Que de mis brazos te lleva
| that takes you from my arms
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| Y yo sin saber qué hacer
| And I don't know what to do
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| De aquel olor a mujer
| Of that smell of a woman
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| A mango y a caña nueva
| A mango and a new cane
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| Con que me llevaste al son
| with what you took me to the son
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| Caliente de aquel danzón
| Hot from that danzón
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí
| put your hand here
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| Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
| Put your hand here Macorina
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| Ponme la mano aquí | put your hand here |