Susana Baca
La macorina lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2000
- Length
- 3:58
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Tus pies dejaban la estera
Your feet left the mat
Y se escapaba tu saya
And your skirt was slipping away
Buscando la guardarraya
Looking for the boundary line
Que al ver tu talle tan fino
For seeing your body so fine
Las cañas azucareras
The sugarcanes
Se echaban por el camino
Laid themselves along the way
Para que tú las molieras
So you could grind them
Como si fueses molino
As if you were a mill
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Tus senos carne de anón
Your breasts, like ripe anon
Tu boca una bendición
Your mouth, a blessing
De guanábana madura
Of ripe soursop
Y era tu bella cintura
And it was your lovely waist
La misma de aquel danzón
The same as that danzón
Caliente de aquel danzón
Hot from that danzón
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Después el amanecer
After the dawn
Que de mis brazos te lleva
That takes you from my arms
Y yo sin saber qué hacer
And I without knowing what to do
De aquel olor a mujer
From that scent of a woman
A mango y a caña nueva
With a mango and fresh sugarcane
Con que me llevaste al son
With which you took me to the rhythm
Caliente de aquel danzón
Hot from that dance
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand here
Ponme la mano aquí Macorina
Put your hand here, Macorina
Ponme la mano aquí
Put your hand right here
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Key vocabulary
- mano
- handA1
- molino
- millB1
- caliente
- hotA1
- ver
- seeA1
- aquí
- hereA1
- macorina
- nickname
- pies
- feetA1
- dejaban
- left
- estera
- mat
- escapaba
- escaped
About this song
Susana Baca is Peruvian vocalist associated with Afro-Peruvian musical traditions. She is known for her interpretation of Afro-Peruvian repertoire, including the widely heard recording of “Maria Lando” featured on David Byrne’s The Soul of Black Peru.