Babalu - Ska Cubano

1st VERSE

Babalu

Babalu

Babalu aye

Babalu aye

Babalu

Ta empezando lo velorio

Que le hacemo a Babalu

Dame diez y siete velas

Pa ponerle en cruz.

Dame un cabo de tabaco mayenye

Y un jarrito de aguardiente,

Dame un poco de dinero mayenye

Pa’que me de la suerte.

Yo

Quiere pedi

Que mi negra me quiera

Que tenga dinero

Y que no se muera

Av!

Vo le quiero pedi a Babalu 'na negra muy santa como tu que no tenga otro

negro

Pa’que no se fuera.

2nd VERSE (CONCLUSION)

Babalu a ye!

1st VERSE

Babalu

Babalu

babalu aye

babalu aye

Babalu

It's starting the wake

What do we do to Babalu

Give me seventeen candles

To put him on the cross.

Give me a piece of tobacco mayenye

And a little jar of brandy,

Give me some money mayenye

So that he gives me luck.

I

want to ask

that my black loves me

have money

And that she does not die

Av!

I want to ask Babalu 'na very holy black woman like you not to have another

black

So that he does not leave.

2nd VERSE (CONCLUSION)

Babalu aye!