Mi Abuela

Blessing grandmother
May God bless you

My grandmother, my grandmother, my grandmother
In Spanish

Let me tell you so you can see
I'm not going to talk about work or school either
Although that's fine, and I know that
I want you to know about me, so you can see it's worse

I arrived from New York, at the beginning of summer
And I wanted to stay at my brother's house
And he said to me: Brother, you can't stay here
And he took me to cousin Tete's to my grandmother's house

Oh, what pain
Poor vacation
What my brother did to me
What kind of pants

Right away my grandmother came down on me
To clean the yard and paint the kitchen
I told her: Ma'am, I came to rest
And she said: No, my child, you come here to work

You really are lazy, I don't know why you complain
Shave that beard and cut your hair
Oh, grandmother, I'll shave the beard
But not cut my hair, I'd rather be dead

I explained to her that it's fashionable to leave the hair long
And she said: That's nonsense, you look like a girl that way
Since I didn't cut it, she waited for me to fall asleep
And she left me with a jet haircut

What a mess, what a thing
What will my friends say when they see me?
Another day for lunch, my grandmother told me
She was going to cook whatever I wanted

So I asked her for a really good meal
A hamburger and a hot dog, what I eat every day
No, no, no sir, I don't cook junk
Here we eat vianda and rice with beans

My grandmother, my grandmother, my grandmother
Here we eat vianda, here we eat vianda

A few days passed, I met her neighbor
And she had a daughter who was really hot
Now, I said to myself
And I started to rap to her without my grandmother knowing

But she found out
And gave me a sermon: Respect that girl
I told her: Grandma, you're meddling
And she slapped me so hard it still hurts

What a thing, you can't do that
What will my friends say when they find out
That another night I wanted to go out
And she said no, these are sleeping hours

And so I spent my Thursday
Everyone partying and I in bed since nine
Other days passed that she didn't bother me
Because she lost her denture box

And even though she scolded me, it seemed like she wanted
None of what she said made sense
So I was able to rest
But my vacation was coming to an end

And since I couldn't think of anything else to do
I pretended a pain was killing me
To see if they would hospitalize me
And then, easily, I would escape from there

But the tables turned on me
Because she started giving me medicine
And forced me to stay in bed
Until she thought I had recovered

My grandmother, my grandmother, my grandmother
(And rice with beans)

And also a problem I had for a while
Seven days a week, if not every day
But I found the solution to all my problems
And that is I have to accept that I am my grandmother's grandson

After all the protesting
When I got back to New York, I started thinking
That she's not what she seems, she's really good
And everything she does is to embarrass me

But, I remembered
All the scolding she gave me
And every time I wanted to drink rum
And had to take a lemon tea

My mom who didn't know how I had spent it
Thought I had enjoyed it all
And dared to ask when I was going back there
And I said: Daughter, in about thirty more years

I don't know if it's that my grandmother
Has a lot of endurance
Or I can't stand her
Because I have no patience

My grandmother, my grandmother
My grandmother, my grandmother
My grandmother, my grandmother
My grandmother, my grandmother
My grandmother, my grandmother
My grandmother, my grandmother