Guajira / Oye cómo va [English translation]

Hear how it goes, my girl!

We're going to have a good time, mulata1!

Hear how it goes, my girl!

We're going to have a good time, mulata!

Let's go, country woman!

We're going to dance!

Let's go, country woman!

We're going to have a good time!

Because you want me, country woman,

if you want to dance

the merengue2... Merengue... Merengue...

Let's go an have a good time!

Let's go have a good time, country woman!

We're going to dance!

Let's go have a good time, country woman!

We're going to dance!

Listen to me, country woman!

Listen to me, mulata!

Listen to me, my girl!

Listen to me, mulata!

Hear how it goes, my girl!

We're going to have a good time, mulata!

Hear how it goes, my girl!

We're going to have a good time, mulata!

Hear how it goes,

my girl!

Hear how it goes!

Hear how it goes!

We're going to have a good time!

Hear how it goes, my girl!

We're going to have a good time, mulata!

Hear how it goes, my girl!

We're going to have a good time, mulata!

Let's go, country woman!

We're going to dance!

Let's go, country woman!

We're going to have a good time!

Listen to me, country woman!

Listen to me, mulata!

Listen to me, mulata!

How it goes!

Let's go, country woman!

We're going to dance!

Let's go, country woman!

We're going to have a good time!

1. a mulata is a woman or girl with one white parent and one black or South or Central American Indian parent. My translation uses the Spanish word mulata because the English word "halfbreed" is generally regarded as offensive2. popular dance, originally dominican but spread to many Caribean countries