Susana Baca
Los lagartos lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2009
- Length
- 2:54
El lagarto está llorando
The lizard is crying
La lagarta está llorando
The female lizard is crying
El lagarto y la lagarta
The lizard and the female lizard
Con delantalito blanco
With a little white apron
Han perdido sin querer
Have lost it unintentionally
El lagarto y la lagarta
The lizard and the female lizard
Han perdido sin querer
Have lost it unintentionally
Su anillo de desposados
Their wedding ring
Ay, su anillito de plomo
Oh, their little lead ring
Su anillito plomado, ¡ay!
Their little lead ring, oh!
Ay, míralos que viejos son
Oh, look how old they are
El lagarto y la lagarta
The lizard and the lizard lady
Míralos que viejos son
Look how old they are
Qué viejos son los lagartos
How old the lizards are
Ay, cómo lloran y lloran
Oh, how they cry and cry
Cómo lloran los lagartos
How the lizards cry
Ay, cómo lloran y lloran
Oh, how they cry and cry
Ay, ay, cómo están llorando
Oh, oh, how they're crying
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Key vocabulary
- llorando
- crying
- lagarta
- lizard
- delantalito
- apron
- blanco
- whiteA1
- anillito
- ring
- plomo
- leadB1
- plomado
- lead
- perdido
- lostB1
- han
- haveA2
- querer
- wantB2
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.