| Quiero contarle mi hermano un pedacito de la historia negra, de la Historia nuestra, caballero
| I want to tell my brother a little bit of black history, of our history, gentleman
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| Y dice asi:
| And he says like this:
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| Uhh!
| ooh!
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| Dice!
| He says!
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| En los años mil seiscientos, cuando el tirano mando
| In the sixteen hundred years, when the tyrant commanded
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| Las calles de Cartagena, aquella historia vivio.
| The streets of Cartagena, that history lived.
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| Cuando alli llegaban esos negreros, africanos en cadenas
| When those slavers arrived there, Africans in chains
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| Besaban mi tierra, esclavitud perpetua
| They kissed my land, perpetual slavery
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| Esclavitud perpetua
| perpetual slavery
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| Esclavitud perpetua
| perpetual slavery
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| Que lo diga salome y que te de llego, llego, llego
| Let Salome say it and give you I arrive, I arrive, I arrive
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| Un matrimonio africano, esclavos de Un espanol, el les daba muy mal trato
| An African couple, slaves of a Spaniard, he treated them very badly
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| Y a su negra le pego
| And he hit his black
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| Y fue alli, se revelo el negro guapo, tomo
| And it was there, the handsome black man was revealed, he took
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| Venganza por su amor y aun se escucha
| Revenge for his love of him and you can still hear
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| En la verja, no le pegue a mi negra
| At the fence, don't hit my black
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| Oye man!
| Hey man!
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| No, no, no, no, no, no,
| No no no no no no,
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| No, no, no, no, no, no
| No no no no no no
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| (varias veces)
| (repeatedly)
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| Oye esa negra se me respeta
| Hey that black woman respects me
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| Ehh, que aun se escucha, se escucha en la verja,
| Ehh, you can still hear it, you can hear it at the gate,
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| No, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no le pegue a la negra
| No, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, don't hit the black
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| Negra que me dice.
| Black you tell me.
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| No le pegue a la negra
| Don't hit the black
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| No le pegue
| don't hit him
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| Y con ustedes… chelito de casa
| And with you…chelito from home
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| Vamos a ver que le pegue a jeva
| Let's see what hits Jeva
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| Porque el alma, que el alma, que el alma
| Because the soul, that the soul, that the soul
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| Que el alma, que el alma se me revienta
| That my soul, that my soul bursts
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| Ehh, no, no, no, no, no, no le pegue a mi negra
| Ehh, no, no, no, no, no, don't hit my black
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| Porque el alma se me agita mi prieta
| Because my soul is shaken my prieta
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| El Chombo lo sabe
| Chombo knows it
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| Y tu tambien
| And you too
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| No le pegue a la negra | Don't hit the black |