Tío Caimán - Quilapayun

Tío caimán

Menea la colita

Tío caimán

Como una señorita

Tío caimán

Menea la colota

Tío caimán

Como una señorota

Yo tenía mi casa chica

Clavada entre mar y mar

Pero vino la tormenta

Y con ella tío caimán

De repente el territorio

De sur a norte se abrió

La parcela que allí estaba

Tío caimán se la tragó

Puso el caimán su bandera

Y la mía me la quitó

Yo le dije: «tío caimán

Eso no lo aguanto yo»…

Tío caimán hablaba inglés

Y andaba por todo el mundo

Y en cada sitio que iba

Metía su colmillo inmundo

Hoy con su cola cortada

Anda loco el tío caimán

Le dieron palos en Cuba

Y le dan palo en Vietnam

(Hoy con su cola cortada

Caimán se cayó al agua

Le dieron palos en Cuba

Y también en Nicaragua.)

Y yo como soy moreno

A mí no me engaña naide

Le daré palo al caimán

A su padre y a su madre

uncle alligator

wag your tail

uncle alligator

like a lady

uncle alligator

shake the tail

uncle alligator

like a lady

I had my house girl

Nailed between sea and sea

But the storm came

And with her uncle alligator

Suddenly the territory

From south to north it opened

The plot that was there

Uncle alligator swallowed it

The alligator put his flag

And mine took it from me

I told him: "gayman uncle

I can't stand that»…

Uncle alligator spoke english

And he walked all over the world

And everywhere he went

He stuck his filthy fang

Today with his tail cut off

The alligator uncle is crazy

They beat him up in Cuba

And they give him a stick in Vietnam

(Today with his tail cut off

Cayman fell into the water

They beat him up in Cuba

And also in Nicaragua.)

And since I'm dark

Nobody fools me

I will give the alligator a stick

To his father of him and his mother