La tierra donde nací

Written by: Jan Miklos Bogdan
Lead vocal: Pascual Matos Aguirre 'Sinsonte'
Backing vocal & maracas: Enrique Castellanos Cuesta
Tres: Jan Miklos Bogdan 'Yanesito'
Piano: Boris Luna
Baby bass & backing vocal: Arnaldo Jiménez
Bongos: Gabriel Licea Dulcet 'El chino'
Congas & güiro: Jorge Luis Torrez Paumiel 'Papiosco'
Timbales: Samuel Formell
Trumpet: Oslén Céballo Brian
Trumpet: Franciesco Padrón Jiménez
Trumpet: Klas Nilsson
Trombone: Eulises Benavides Silveira 'El caramelo de Zamorána'
Trombone: Ariel Guillot Manzano

Agarro el avión pa´ Santiago.
Y con mi conjunto voy a changüícear, y gozar.
Con el tren iré a Guantánamo, a penas porque es la cuna del changüí.
y a La Loma del Chivo me fuí.

Coro: Soy changüícero porque nací en Guantánamo, guantanamero y el ritmo me da el sabor.
Soy changüícero porque nací en Guantánamo, guantanamero y el ritmo me da el sabor.

Agarro la guagua a La Habana.
Y a tú casa iremos a guarachar, y bailar en una fiesta bien cubana.
Voy porque es la tierra donde nací.
Vamo´ a tocar changüí.

Coro: Soy changüícero porque nací en Guantánamo, guantanamero y el ritmo me da el sabor.
Soy changüícero porque nací en Guantánamo, guantanamero y el ritmo me da el sabor.

Coro x2: Oyeme bien, que traigo aquí, un homenaje sencillo a la tierra donde nací.

Un homenaje sencillo a la tierra donde nací.
Quiero cantarle a todo el mundo señores, este rico changüí, changüí.

Un homenaje bien bonito bien sincero mira, yo te lo canto a ti,
a esa tierra bien bonita, es la tierra del changüí.

Coro x2: Yo vengo, gozando, poniéndole sentimiento y con mi changüí acabando.

Yo vengo, gozando, poniéndole sentimiento mira a tu cintura con mi changüí acabando.

Yo vengo con sentimiento.
Coro x4: ¡Con mi changüí acabando!

Yo te lo canto bonito.
Báilalo en un ladrillito.
La rumba está comenzando.

In English
The Place where I was born

I take the airplane to Santiago,
and with my band I will play the changüí and have a good time.
With the train I’ll go to Guantanamo, where the changüí was born
and I´m already on my way to La Loma del Chivo.

Chorus: I´m a changüí player because I was born in Guantanamo, and the rhythm makes me groovy.
I´m a changüí player because I was born in Guantanamo, and the rhythm makes me groovy.

I take the bus to Havana.
We will go to your house to party and dance in a typical Cuban way.
I’m coming because I was born there.
Come on, let´s play the changüí!

Chorus: I´m a changüí player because I was born in Guantanamo, and the rhythm makes me groovy.
I´m a changüí player because I was born in Guantanamo, and the rhythm makes me groovy.

Chorus x2: Listen to me, what I bring is a simple tribute to the place where I was born.

A simple tribute to the place where I was born.
Gentlemen, I want to sing this wonderful changüí to the whole world.

A beautiful and sincere tribute, listen, I’m singing it to you, beautiful land, the land of the changüí.

Chorus x2: Here I come, enjoying myself, full of emotion, playing my changüí.

Here I come, enjoying myself, full of emotion, playing my changüí. Look at your hips!

Here I come, full of emotion.
Chorus x4: Playing my changüí!

I sing it to you beautifully,
while we dance closely.
The rumba has just begun.