Si El Norte Fuera El Sur Lyrics

Lyric discussion by soltex 

Cover art for Si El Norte Fuera El Sur lyrics by Ricardo Arjona

This is a rough translation:

The north, it's mcdonalds, basketball and rock&roll it's topless it's madonas and stallone's abdomen tanning intellectuals, supermarket scholars they have everything but have paid nothing

With 18 you're a kid for a drink in a bar but you're a full man for war and murder hurray for vietnam and hurray for forrest gump hurray for wall street and hurray for donald trump hurray for the 7-11

They dust their noses and carry siringes in their pockets They travel with marijuana to understand the situation of this judge of the planet which sends an invitation cut it off to your husband and you'll gain a reputation

Chorus:

Stars and stripes take ahold of my flag and our freedom is nothing more than a whore and if the outside debt stole our freedom to hell with geography, no more frontiers

If the north was the south the sioux would be the margined being brown and short would be the most attractive look Marcos would be the mexican rambo and cyndy crawford the menchú of my friends reagan would be Somoza

Fidel would be an athlete running stocks in wall street and the che would do double meat burgers yankees of illegals to tijuana and the boats from miami to habana if the north was the south

We'd be the same or perhaps a little worse with the maldines by greenland and a disneyland in Guatemala and a Simon Bolivar breaking his secret Here goes prop. 187, out go the yankees by decree

Chrous 2x

If the north was the south, it would be the same crap i'd sing some rap and this song wouldn't exist.