Si el norte fuera el sur [English translation]

The north with their McDonald's, basketball and Rock'N Roll

Their topless bars, Madonnas, and stomach of Stallone

Tanned intellectuals, supermarket scholars

They have everything but haven't paid for anything.

With 18 you too young to have a drink in the bar

But you're man enough for war and to kill

Long live Vietnam and Forest Gump

Long live Wall Street and Donald Trump

Long live Seven Eleven

They powder their nose and use a syringe in their pockets

They travel with marijuana to understand the situation

Of this judge of the planet that throws an invitation

Court your spouse and you will win a reputation

Chorus:

The rods and stars take control of my flag

And our liberty nothing but a whore

And if the external debt steals our spring

To hell with geography borders are finished

If the north was the south would the Sioux be outcasts

Would being dark and indigenous be the popular look

Would Marcos be the Mexican Rambo

And Cindy Crawford the Mench of my countrymen

Reagan maybe a Samosan

Fidel would be an athlete running the stock market in Wall Street

And Che making Double Hamburgers

The yankees wetbacks to Tijuana

And the boats going from Miami to Havana, if the north was the south.

We would be the same or maybe a little worse

With the Falkland Islands by Greenland

And Disneyland in Guatemala

And Simon Bolivar letting out his secret

CHORUS:

The rods and stars take control of my flag

And our liberty nothing but a whore

And if the external debt steals our spring

To hell with geography borders are finished

If the north was the south, it would be the same crap

I would be singing Rap and this song would even exist.

• Artist:Ricardo Arjona
• Album:Si el norte fuera el sur (1996)