Ligia Elena (feat. Willie Colon)

Ligia Elena, the innocent girl of society
Has eloped with a trumpeter from the neighborhood
Her father is searching diligently
And everyone is talking about it
And the mother asks anxiously
Where could she be?

Scoldings were of no use
Nor trips nor nuns
Nor the promises of love
Made by the good boys
The humble trumpeter played such a sweet note
That amidst chords of eternal affection
She went away with him

They moved to a small room
With very few furnishings
And there they live happily and full of joy
While the sad parents wonder where they went wrong
Ligia Elena and her trumpeter are loving each other

The days slip by sweetly in that little room
While in the luxurious mansions of society
Other girls who know the story wonder as they sleep
Oh, sir, when will my trumpeter arrive?

Other girls who know the story wonder as they sleep
Oh, sir, when will my trumpeter arrive?

Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
She ran away with a trumpeter from the neighborhood
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
They took the apple of her father's eye
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
Where did we go wrong, mother asks
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
They have infiltrated a niche in the white society
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
Love prevailed over money, sir
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
The note that trumpeter played was so good
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
There's no room for racism, brother
Let us catch her, swears the father
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
Ligia is full of happiness

Look, Mrs. Gertrudis, I tell you where I am
But you see, what bothers me the most
Me, what bothers me the most
What bothers me the most
Is that ungrateful girl, I thought she was going to give me
A little grandson with blond hair
And blond eyes and blond teeth like Froy Donahue
And she comes and leaves with that rascal, oh, no
Oh, this youth

Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating
Ligia Elena is happy and her family is suffocating