Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Bruca Maniguá by Ibrahim Ferrer from Italian to English.
Yo son carabalí
I'm Carabalí
Negro de nación
African black
Sin la libertad
Without freedom
No pue'o vivi'
I can't live
Mundele cabá
White man, enough
Con mi corazón
With my heart
Tanto maltratá
So mistreated
Cuerpo ta' furí
Body's furious
Mundele cumba fiote
Big-boss white man
Siempre ta' ngarua'cha
Always messing around
Queta' por mucho
No matter how much
Que yo lo ndinga
I beg him
Seimpre ta' maltratá
He still mistreats me
Ya ne me tabá
I'm fed up now
Ya ne me tabá
I'm fed up now
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Abre cruita buirindingo
Open up quick, buirindingo
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Si ramento suaro suare
If I remember, suaro suare
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Como un teinda derechito
Like a straight plank
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Un paso, un paso ubbe Yobelle lla
One step, one step up to Yobelle ya
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Ya yorrucu mandendo
Now the Mandinga cry rings
Bruca Maniguá yaeooo
Bruca Maniguá, yaeooo
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yo son carabalí, son mandinga
I'm Carabalí, I'm Mandinga
Quiero mi libertad
I want my freedom
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Congo tiene teremende
Congo's got something big
Bruca Maniguá yaeooo
Bruca Maniguá, yaeooo
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yo ta'tantando lo mundele
I'm sizing up the whites
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Que esa negra a mi me engaña
That black girl fools me
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Que esa negra a mi me engaña
That black girl fools me
Bruca Maniguá
Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
Yenyere Bruca Maniguá
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