No somos latinos [English translation]

You might think that I'm half cunning

Or that I live drunk in wine

These fools wanna make me believe

That Uruguayans are latinos

Time ago seemed like a joke

That being chicano went with the fashion

If my grandpa Arsenio could see me

Singing with Caribbean accent.

I don't say "ia está listo el poio", 1

Neither "frijoles" 2nor "arroio"3

"ierba"4, "iuio"5 nor "io io"6 7

Don't piss me off, we are not latinos

Don't piss me off, we are not latinos

I was raised in the Southern Switzerland. 8

I don't know to dance cumbia nor salsa

Neither I escaped from Cuba in a raft.

My mom gave me birth in Montevideo

I don't wanna go to live in Miami.

A moment ago on the radio and the TV

They overwhelmed me with son and merengue

Don't make me become fierce

I don't wanna go to Don Francisco's show 9

And they think

Yankees and Europeans

We are a banana republic

with little palms and heat.

Don't piss me off, we are not latinos

Don't piss me off, we are not latinos

I was raised in the Southern Switzerland.

In Colombia they called me Gringo,

Or German in Santo Domingo

In Honduras, Panama and Venezuela

They don't know where is Uruguay

I'd rather talk with a Swedish philosopher

Than with a Guatemalan Amerindian

And I have more in common with a Romanian

Than with a Bolivian cholo.

When I read "The Open Veins" 10

I realized it was garbage

And I slept in the fourth page.

Don't piss me off, we are not latinos

Don't piss me off, we are not latinos

I was raised in the Southern Switzerland.

Uruguaios a gozal! 11

1. The chicken's ready2. Beans3. Brook4. Weed5. Herb6. Yo Yo7. The joke is that the Uruguayans pronounce the Y and the LL with a sound similar to english SH, and the Caribbeans pronounce them with a sound that is similar to the I8. In the first decades of the 20th century, Uruguay was described as the Switzerland of South America9. Sabado Gigante10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America11. "Uruguayans, lets party!" again with Caribbean accent