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Translation
A Carribean in New York
Just arrived from Manhattan,
With his neck making him look back
More wet than a fish
The illusion is just a fantasy
He whistles down Fifth Ave:
I hope that it'll rain coffee!
Where could my uncle live, in Brooklyn or the Bronx?
He got to Puerto Rico by a balza
He sold seafood in Piñones and San Juan
But one day he stowed-away on a ship to New York
With his dreams that he took with him and those he left behind
His soul yearned for the Carribean in New York
And he thinks of it, there's its mulata looking at the sky
While she lies down on a stand in Central Park
With the New York Times she makes a blanket and looks at the sky
While she tells me the stories that today I sing
The story of a Carribean in New York
And what does a Carribean do in New York
That isn't just suffering through the heat and the cold
Betrayed by loneliness?
And what does a Carribean do in New York
Who doesn't miss what they left behind
And remain dreaming of returning?
And what does a Carribean do in New York?
And what does a Carribean do in New York?
What is it that a Carribean does in New York ?
Creating a first-world factory and of opportunity
It's a question of a couple years to be able to save enough
And the calender becomes old and the cold turns into heat
And it sends to its mulata some caresses of money
And it thinks about her, about its mulata, looking at the sky
While she lies down on a stand in Central Park
With the New York Times made into her blanket and she looks at the sky
While she tells me the story that I sing to you today
Of the story of a Carribean in New York
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A mulata is a person of mixed race. Mulatos make up a lot of the population in Carribean countries.