Carlos Vives
Miscellaneous
Bad Languages
Of those customs
that exist in my land
I thought about bad languages
Those that hide
in the weeds
and they get into other people's lives
They don't ask themselves
they don't know anything
about what happens in your heart
and they are the owners They give you the word
and they say they are always right
That if I am from Santa Marta
Or if I am from Valledupar
That the shorts
How very modern when singing
That long hair is a joke
They don't know anything but to invent
And if now I have it short
It will be to hide it
I am free
I can sing
Ask Leandro Díaz
I met the minstrels
from beyond
I sang with Francisco the Man
in the mountains
Then I met the people
from Bogotá
they dreamed of the songs
that I knew
And I remember when Inocencia
He spoke to me
with his Valley accent
And in his blue-eyed gaze
I saw the cañahuates reflected
That if I am from Santa Marta
Or if I'm from Valledupar
That shorts
How very modern when singing
That long hair is a girl
They don't know anything but to invent
And If now I have it short
It will be to hide it
I am free
I can sing
Ask him
A Leandro Díaz
Ask for me
in the Plaza de Valledaupar
or in Hernandito's house
until the other day
The night when Emiliano
heard me sing
with Egidio's accordion
The Cold Drop