El Chisme
Celia Cruz
The Gossip
The doorbell rings, ring-ring
And I answer, hello!
It's my little friend Maria
Who told me this gossip
She told me she ran into
Rosita the other day
And she told her that Paquita
Her husband left her
Then she also told me
That the Perez family bought
A tremendous mansion
With laundered money
(Maria loves gossip so much)
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Oh, my friend, I told her
Gossip has cost you
Because I don't know anyone
Who has laundered money
Laundering money they call it
A simple operation
Where the money gets wet
To remove the heat from it
(Maria loves gossip so much)
(Maria loves gossip so much)
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Oh, Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria
(Maria loves gossip so much)
They're going to cut your tongue, Maria
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Maria got angry
And indignantly replied to me
Oh, my friend, get with it
Because you're not in the loop
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Shut your mouth and don't talk so much, Maria
(Maria loves gossip so much)
How Maria talks every day
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Oh, my friend, I told her
It won't end like this
It's just that this gossip
Is starting to interest me
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Oh, Maria, but how Maria talks
(Maria loves gossip so much)
She talks about history and Lucia
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Why is this gossip-loving person my friend
(Maria loves gossip so much)
What a gossip, Maria, what a gossip
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Maria has a long tongue
Hearing her talk, I freeze
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Gloria Diaz and Raquel Attias love it
(Maria loves gossip so much)
And both are my friends
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Maria calls me day and night
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Maria Lao, Maria Lao, Maria Lao, Maria Lao
(Maria loves gossip so much)
Tell Maria Lao, tell Maria Lao, tell
She talks more than Rosa
(Maria, the gossip)
She makes things up
(Maria, the gossip)
She's very venomous
(Maria, the gossip)
She's also deceitful
(Maria, the gossip)
She's very insignificant
(Maria, the gossip)
Oh, Maria, Maria
(Maria, the gossip)
And her name is Maria Rosa
(Maria, the gossip)
Gossip!
