Moneda de Cobre (part. Alberto Castillo)

Your dad was a blonde
Drunk and a crook
Your mom was black
With lips like a flower

You were born a mulatto
With sky-blue eyes
And weed in your hair
Like black coal

You grew up in the mud
Of a very poor neighborhood
You turned twenty
In a cabaret

And now they call you a copper coin
Because you're old and sad
You're worth so little

Copper coin
I know you were beautiful yesterday
With your rose-colored wings
I saw you fly, butterfly
And then I saw you fall

Mud coin
You danced the tango so well
You looked so lovely back then
Like a bronze queen
Over in Poliberge