Album: Buena Vista Social Club (1997)

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• De Alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De Alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De Alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  El cariño que te tengo
  No te lo puedo negar
  Se me sale la babita
  Yo no lo puedo evitar
  
  Cuando Juanica y Chan Chan
  En el mar cernían arena
  Como sacudía el jibe
  A Chan Chan le daba pena
  
  Limpia el camino de pajas
  Que yo me quiero sentar
  En aquel tronco que veo
  Y así no puedo llegar
  
  De alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí
  
  De alto Cedro voy para Marcané
  Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayarí Writer/s: Maximo Francisco Repilado Munoz
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• Jorge from Bronx, NyGreat compilations of Great from that era,This album is so great every song is a gem,In fact got to see the movie on PBS stations while doing the public support,lol,Ry Cooder is whom made this possible,in which he was a great bluesman in his heyday.
• Patequi from Pasadena, CaThe four towns mentioned in ChanChan are located on the Sierra Nipe corridor in the northern sector of the former Oriente province, now Holguín. Mayarí is on the Bay of Nipe-the largest of the 4 townships in sugar cane country. From there the route begins towards the southern side of the province to the province capital of Santiago de Cuba, going through Cueto, Marcané and Alto Cedro.
  
  Compay is from Siboney-a suburb of Santiago in the southern region of Oriente but used to travel to the morthern side because his auntie was a resident of Marcané, from there he would go to the beaches of Mayarí Bay, hence having sex on the beach metaphors.
• Keely from Bronx, NyThe lyrics are a metaphor for having sex on the beach.

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