A ie ai e aie aie aie a ie Pu erto Rico (x2)
W ake u p Angelita your mama just turned off the light
Manolo is already waiting by the old water-pipe
Her shoes in one hand she carefully walks down the stairs
Holding her breath 'cause there's danger and love in the air.
A ie ai e aie aie aie a ie Pu erto Rico
A ie ai e aie aie aie a ie Pu erto Rico
Your papa will b eat him if he ever finds out
Be gging the Virgin won't h elp
when you'll hear Man olito shout (Ma nolito sh out)
He's already sta nding under the starlit sk y
Y ou run to his arms and you lau gh and you cry as he ho lds you tigh t
A ie ai e aie aie aie a ie Puerto Rico (x2) instrum…..
H e says he'll be leaving you soon still you beg him to stay
But he wants to make it somewhere in the U.S.A.
And though he'll be far he promises he'll write every day
When time will be right he'll come back and he'll take you away
A ie ai e aie aie aie a ie Pu erto Rico
A ie ai e aie aie aie a ie Pu erto Rico
Your papa do n't like him he says he's no g ood
H e steals and he fights and he ne ver bahaves
like a you ng man should (like a you ng man sho uld)
Angelita she kno ws he's not bad ins ide
She ta kes the me dal she wears on a cha in
and presses it into his pa lm (he 'll come back and he'll take you )
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