Translation of the song No somos latinos artist El Cuarteto de Nos
No somos latinos
We are not latinos
Pensarán que soy medio ladino
You might think that I'm half cunning
O que vivo borracho de vino
Or that I live drunk in wine
Quieren hacerme creer estos cretinos
These fools wanna make me believe
Que los uruguayos somos latinos.
That Uruguayans are latinos
Hace un tiempo parecía joda
Time ago seemed like a joke
Que ser chicano esté de moda
That being chicano went with the fashion
Si me viera mi abuelito Arsenio
If my granpa Arsenio could see me
Cantando con acento caribeño.
Singing with caribbean accent.
Yo no digo ia está listo el poio,
I don't say ia está listo el poio, 1
Ni frijoles ni arroio
Neither frijoles 2nor arroio3
ierba, iuio ni io io
ierba4, iuio5 nor io io6 7
No me jodan más, no somos latinos
Don't piss me off, we are not latinos
No me jodan más, no somos latinos
Don't piss me off, we are not latinos
Yo me crié en la suiza del sur.
I was raised in the Southern Switzerland. 8
Yo no se bailar ni cumbia ni salsa
I don't know to dance cumbia nor salsa
Ni me escapé de Cuba en una balsa.
Neither I scaped from Cuba in a raft.
Me parió en Montevideo mi mami
My mom gave me birth in Montevideo
Yo no quiero ir a vivir a Miami.
I don't wanna go to live in Miami.
Hace rato en la radio, en la tele
A moment ago on the radio and the TV
Me pudrieron a son y a merengue
They overwhelmed me with son and merengue
No me hagan poner arisco
Don't make me become fierce
Y no quiero ir al show de Don Francisco
I don't wanna go to Don Francisco's show 9
Y piensan
And they think
Los yanquis y los europeos
Yankees and europeans
Somos un país bananero
We are a banana republic
Con palmeritas y calor.
with little palms and heat.
No me jodan más, no somos latinos
Don't piss me off, we are not latinos
No me jodan más, no somos latinos
Don't piss me off, we are not latinos
Yo me crié en la suiza del sur.
I was raised in the Southern Switzerland.
En Colombia me decían gringo,
In Colombia they called me Gringo,
O alemán en Santo Domingo
Or German in Santo Domingo
Ni en Honduras, Panamá y Venezuela
In Honduras, Panama and Venezuela
El Uruguay ni saben donde queda.
They don't know where is Uruguay
Prefiero hablar con un filósofo sueco
I'd rather talk with a swedish philosopher
Que con un indio guatemalteco,
Than with a guatemalan amerindian
Y tengo más en común con un rumano
And I have more in common with a romanian
Que con un cholo boliviano.
Than with a bolivian cholo.
Cuando leí las venas abiertas
When I read The Open Veins 10
Que era un bodrio me di cuenta
I realized it was garbage
Y a la cuarta hoja me dormí.
And I slept in the fourth page.
No me jodan más, no somos latinos
Don't piss me off, we are not latinos
No me jodan más, no somos latinos
Don't piss me off, we are not latinos
Yo me crié en la suiza del sur.
I was raised in the Southern Switzerland.
Uruguaios a gozal!
Uruguaios a gozal! 11