Criollo Soy [English translation]

Let us go to the party.

Let us go, go to dance,

brown skin country girl.

The party will start soon.

I’m a Creole, I’m a peasant.

I live free and sovereign.

There are pains that I don’t tell about

and loves that I keep inside of me.

The skin that I have is tanned,

the eyes are narrowed,

and this love for life

is born in my land and its song.

Let us go to the party.

Let us go, go to dance,

brown skin country girl.

The party will start soon.

I’m a Creole, I’m a peasant.

I have a sanctuary on the hill.

I don’t need wealth,

I have music and singing,

and a cottage on the hill

made of palms and guano,

with the sugarcane walls

and the floor of earth and clay.

Brown skin country girl,

mixture of a black woman and a white man,

with the color of olives,

with the flavor of tobacco.

Let us go to the party.

Let us go, go to dance,

brown skin country girl.

The party will start soon.

I’m a Creole, I’m a peasant.

I live free and sovereign.

I am a friend of my friends

and I have a solitary soul.

I have my black girl that lights

the fire that I extinguish.

She never refuses a night with me

and wakes me up singing.

Brown skin country girl,

mixture of a black woman and a white man,

with the color of olives,

with the flavor of tobacco.

Let us go to the party.

Let us go, go to dance,

brown skin country girl.

The party will start soon.

Let us go to the party.

Let us go, go to dance,

brown skin country girl.

The party will start soon.