Chan Chan lyrics

It's a sultry song of chan chan hots for juanica. I love it!

The affection i have for you
i can't deny
it makes my mouth water
i can't help it

When juanica and chan chan
sifted sand by the sea
the way she shook her jib
gave chan chan pain

Clear the path of straws
i want to go sit on that log
like this, i can't get there.

Juanica's "jibe" is clearly her forward structure, like the jib sail on a boat or the jib on a crane.

Poor chan chan can't climb over the straws on the path because he is very stiff.

The lyric is very simple and naughty. I can't see any indication that we should be looking for something more complex.

Rodrigo

From alto cedro, i head for marcane.
I get to cueto, i head for mayari

My tenderness towards you
I just can't stop
You make my mouth water
I just can't help it

Juanica and chan chan
Sifted sand by the sea.
When she shook the sieve,
Chan chan got hard,

"clear the leaves off the path.
I want to lie down
On that tree-trunk i see.
Like this, i can't get there. "

From alto cedro, i head for marcane.
I get to cueto, i head for mayari

The opening and closing lines -- de alto cedro. . . Voy para mayari -- frame the central story. The music is lively but solemn. The story is important. I think the singer is an old man going from town to town -- ? A postman ? -- now sitting down at a cafe to tell a story to the men around him.

The story (like all stories) is a memory. But here it is a memory of long ago -- of the singer's youth -- probably of his childhood. It may be a memory of his first sexual experience. But my own take is that the memory is of his first awareness of sex -- even before puberty. The girl and the boy are playing in the sand -- meaning, i think, that they were playing like children -- building sand castles and so on. The boy notices how attractive the girl is when she wiggles her behind -- and he gets an embarrassing hard-on. He wants to sit together with the girl away from the beach -- on a tree next to the path. I think he just means to sit there. He has no experience with actual fucking and probably doesn't want to go there or doesn't know how to. His feelings for the girl are overwhelming to the little boy.

The memory is charming. It is filled with remembered lust -- but lust that was somehow innocent and good and youthful. What a charming girl juanica was! How naive chan chan was! Now she is long gone -- dead or very old -- but she is always a girl in the old man's memory and he is always a boy. The memory is tender and has been a comfort to him as he has traveled through life, from here to there to there -- stopping just now to rest and refresh himself.

Really, it is a most beautiful song.

This verse is from the perspective of juanica.

Limpia el camino de pajas - clear the pathway
que yo me quiero sentar - because i want to sit
en aquel tronco que veo - atop that tree trunk i see
y asi no puedo llegar - and like this (with his pants on) i'll never arrive (i.e. 'come')

Very sensual tune. Its the story of two lover at a beach. Longing, passion, and its telos.

The feelings i have for you
i cannot deny
i drool like a babe
and i can't help it

When juanica and chan chan
sifted sand in the sea
how she shook her behind
and chan chan became aroused... (he got an erection! )

Clear the path of straw and sticks
for i would like to sit
on that tree trunk that i see
and i can't get to it

From alto cedro i go to marcane
i arrive at cueto and go to mayari

From alto cedro, i go to marcan
i arrive in cueto, and then i go towards mayar.

The love i have for you
is something i cannot deny
i drool all over
i cannot help it.

When juanica and chan chan
were hanging in the sea sand
she shook like the "jibe"
chan chan felt sorry/shame

Clean the path of straw
cause i want to sit down
on that tree trunk i see
and that way i'm never going to arrive

From alto cedro, i go to marcan
i arrive in cueto, and then i go towards mayar.

Wish this was in english, i understand spanish, but english much better... :)

From alto cedro i'm going to marcane
arrive to cueto i'm going to mayari

The love that i have for you
i can't deny it
i leave out a little bit saliva
i can't avoid it

When juanica and chan chan
was playing with the sand
when she was shaking the 'jibe'
chan chan was embarrased

Clean the way of straws
that i want to sit down
in the trunk that i see
and i can't get there

From alto cedro i'm going to marcane
arrive to cueto i'm going to mayari.