Drume Negrita - Bola de Nieve

Drume Negrita / Sleep little black girl - Bola de Nieve

interpreted here by Horacio Salinas

Drume negrita
Que yo va a comprar nueva cunita
Que tendrá capite' y también ca'cabe'
Si tu drume yo te traigo un mamey muy colorao
Si no drume yo te traigo un babalao
Que da pau pau

A la negrita se le salen
Los pies de la cunita
Y la negra Merce' ya no sabe que hace'
Drume negrita
Que yo va a compra' nueva cunita
Que tendrá capite' y también ca'cabe'
Si tu drume yo te traigo un mamey muy colorao'
Si no drume yo te traigo un babalao'
Que da pau pau

Sleep little black girl, that I'm going to buy you a crib that will have a cover, and also little bells.

If you go to sleep I'll bring you a ripe mamey*, and if you don't I'll bring you a 'babalao'**, who'll give you "pau pau"

The little black girl's feet come out of her bed, and the black woman Merce' doesn't know what to do.

Sleep little black girl, I am going to buy you a crib... [repeats]

* mamey is a fruit

** babalo is a priest of Santeria

*** pau pau is a figure of speech for spanking

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