No Somos Latinos

We are not Latinos

No Somos Latinos

They'll think I'm half ladinoPensarán que soy medio ladino
Or that I live drunk on wineO que vivo borracho de vino
These cretins want to make me believeQuieren hacerme creer estos cretinos
That we Uruguayans are LatinQue los uruguayos somos latinos

A while ago they seemed like shitHace un tiempo parecían joda
Being Chicano is fashionableSer chicano esté de moda
If my grandfather Arsenio saw meSi me viera mi abuelito Arsenio
Singing with a Caribbean accentCantando con acento caribeño

And I don't say "the poio is ready"Y yo no digo "ia está listo el poio"
Neither "beans" nor "arroio"Ni "frijoles" ni "arroio"
"herba", "iuio" nor "io io""ierba", "iuio" ni "io io"

Don't fuck with me anymore, we are not LatinosNo me jodan más no somos latinos
Don't fuck with me anymore, we are not LatinosNo me jodan más no somos latinos
I grew up here in southern SwitzerlandYo me crié aca en la suiza del sur

I don't know how to dance or cumbia or salsaYo no se bailar ni cumbia ni salsa
I didn't even escape from Cuba on a raftNi me escapé de Cuba en una balsa
My mom gave birth to me in MontevideoMe parió en Montevideo mi mami
I don't want to go live in MiamiYo no quiero ir a vivir a Miami

A while ago on the radio, on TVHace rato en la radio, en la tele
They rotted me to son and merengueMe pudrieron a son y a merengue
Don't make me get angryNo me hagan poner arisco
I don't want to go to Don Francisco's showYo no quiero ir al show de Don Francisco

and they thinkY piensan
The Yankees and the EuropeansLos yanquis y los europeos
We are a banana countrySomos un país bananero
With palm trees and heatCon palmeritas y calor

Don't fuck with me anymore, we are not LatinosNo me jodan más no somos latinos
Don't fuck with me anymore, we are not LatinosNo me jodan más no somos latinos
I grew up here in southern SwitzerlandYo me crié aca en la suiza del sur

In Colombia they called me gringoEn Colombia me decían gringo
Or German in Santo DomingoO alemán en Santo Domingo
And in Honduras, Panama and VenezuelaY en Honduras, Panamá y Venezuela
Uruguay doesn't even know where it isUruguay ni saben donde queda

I'd rather talk to a Swedish philosopherPrefiero hablar con un filósofo sueco
What with a Guatemalan IndianQue con un indio guatemalteco
And I have more in common with a RomanianY tengo más en común con un rumano
What with a Bolivian choloQue con un cholo boliviano

And when I read "open veins"Y cuando leí "las venas abiertas"
It was rubbish I realizedera un bodrio me di cuenta
on the fourth page I fell asleepa la cuarta hoja me dormí

Don't fuck with me anymore, we are not LatinosNo me jodan más no somos latinos
Don't fuck with me anymore, we are not LatinosNo me jodan más no somos latinos
I grew up here in southern SwitzerlandYo me crié aca en la suiza del sur

I grew up in southern SwitzerlandYo me crié en la suiza del sur
I grew up in southern SwitzerlandYo me crié en la suiza del sur

Uruguayans to gozal!Uruguaios a gozal!