Ligia Elena - Rubén Blades, Willie Colón

Ligia Elena, la cándida niña de la sociedad,

se ha fugado con un trompetista de la vecindad.

El padre la busca afanosamente, lo está comentando toda la gente,

y la madre pregunta angustiada: en dónde estará?

De nada sirvieron regaños, ni viajes, ni monjas,

ni las promesas de amor que le hicieran los niños de bien;

fue tan buena la nota que dio aquel humilde trompeta

que, entre acordes de cariño eterno, se fué ella con él.

Se han mudado a un cuarto chiquito con muy pocos muebles,

y allí viven contentos y llenos de felicidad.

Mientras tristes, los padres, preguntan: «¿En donde fallamos?»

Ligia Elena con su trompetista amándose están.

Dulcemente se escurren los días en aquel cuartito,

mientras que en las mansiones lujosas de la sociedad,

otras niñas que saben del cuento, al dormir, se preguntan:

«¿Ay señor!, y mi trompetista cuándo llegará?»

Otras niñas que saben del cuento, al dormir, se preguntan:

«¿Ay señor!, y mi trompetista cuándo llegará?»

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está asfixi'á.

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Se escapó con un trompeta de la vecindad'.

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Se llevaron la niña del ojo 'el papá.

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

«¿En donde fallamos?», pregunta mamá.

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Se a colado un binche en la blanca sociedad.

Davi deo dodó, davi deoo dodó…

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Pudo más el amor que el dinero., ¡señor!

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

¡Qué buena la nota que dio aquel trompeta!

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Eso del racismo, broder, no está en ná'.

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

«¡Déjala que la agarre!», nos jura el papá.

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Ligia Elena está llena de felicidad.

(«! Le voy a enseñar.¡,

que yo la voy a agarrar!

Yo la voy a agarrar!

Horror¡,!

Horror¡)

Mire doña Gertrudis,

le digo que estoy.,

pero es que, mire:

A mi lo que más me.,

(mmmm…)

a mí lo que más me.,

(mmmm…)

a mí lo que más me… ¡choca!

es que esa mal agradecida,

yo pensaba que me iba a dar un nietecito con.,

los cabellos rubios,

los ojos rubios,

los dientes rubios,

como Fry Donahew,

y va y se marcha con ese.,

¡con ese tusa!

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena está contenta y su familia está a’fixi'á.)

Ligia Elena, the candid society girl,

she has eloped with a neighborhood trumpeter.

Her father is looking for her eagerly, all the people are commenting on it,

and the mother asks in anguish: where is she?

Scoldings were of no use, nor trips, nor nuns,

nor the promises of love that good children made her;

the note that she gave that humble trumpet was so good

that, between chords of eternal affection, she left with him.

They have moved into a small room with very little furniture,

and there they live content and full of happiness.

While sad, the parents ask: "Where did we fail?"

Ligia Elena with her trumpeter of her loving each other.

Sweetly the days slip away in that little room,

while in the luxurious mansions of society,

Other girls who know about the story, when sleeping, ask themselves:

"Oh sir! And when will my trumpeter arrive?"

Other girls who know about the story, when sleeping, ask themselves:

"Oh sir! And when will my trumpeter arrive?"

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating.

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

She ran away with a trumpet from the neighborhood.'

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

They took the apple of the eye 'the dad.

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

"Where did we go wrong?" Mom asks.

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

A bug has crept into white society.

Davi deo dodo, davi deoo dodo...

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

Love was stronger than money, sir!

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

How good the note that she gave that trumpet!

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

That racism thing, broder, is not in ná'.

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

“Let her grab it!” Dad swears to us.

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

Ligia Elena is full of happiness.

(«! I am going to teach him.¡,

I'm going to catch her!

I'm going to catch her!

Horror,!

Horror)

Look Dona Gertrudis,

I tell him that I am

but, look:

To me what most me.,

(MMM…)

to me what most me.,

(MMM…)

what most shocks me!

is that ungrateful,

I thought I was going to give myself a little grandson with.,

blonde hair,

blonde eyes,

blond teeth,

as Fry Donahew,

and he goes and leaves with that.,

with that tusa!

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)

(Ligia Elena is happy and her family is a'fixi'á.)