Lyrics and translation Willie Colón - Buscando Guayaba

Buscando Guayaba

Me fui pa'l monte buscando guayaba
Por la vereda del ocho y el dos
Y aunque encontre una casa dorada
Esa guayaba no la hallaba yo
Mucho he viajado por todo el mundo
Y nunca nunca pude encontrar
Una guayaba que me gustara
Y detuviera mi caminar
Y aunque encontre una casa dorada
Esa guayaba no pude hallar

(Buscando guayaba ando yo) ¿Cómo?
(Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó)

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
(Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó)

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
(Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó)
Una guayaba salve morena
Una guayaba que este bien buena

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
(Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó)
Bururu barara ¿dónde va Miguel?
Bururu barara fue a buscar tambien guayaba

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
(Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó)
Que, pero que tenga mucho, mendó
Pero que tenga, que tenga, muchísimo sabor

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
(Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó)
Busco una guayaba, busco una guayaba
Busco una guayaba, por la vereda del ocho y el dos

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
(Que tenga sabor, que tenga mendó)

Que tenga sabor que tenga mendó
(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Guayabita sabanera

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Aquí, acá, que yo quiero una guayaba

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Venga y dame una manito
¡Ay! ayudeme comay

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Ya la veo que usted, ya la veo que usted
Lo coje y no dice donde hay

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Dime esa guayaba bonita donde la encuentro, ¡ay dios!

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Que, que caminando siempre voy andando señor

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Bururu barara ¿dónde va miguel?

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Ven y ayuda babalao
Dime donde esta que nunca yo la he encontra'o

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Acompáñame porque puede suceder

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Que yo encuentre esa mujer y la aprenda a querer

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
La busco por el monte y por la marqueta

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
No no ro no no no te escondas más y aparecete prieta

(Buscando guayaba ando yo)
Que tenga sabor y que tenga mendó
(Buscando guayaba ando yo)

Searching for Guava

I went to the mountains searching for guava
Along the path of eight and two
And even though I found a golden house
That guava, I couldn't find it, no
I've traveled much throughout the world
And never, never could I find
A guava that I liked
And would stop my wandering
And even though I found a golden house
That guava I couldn't find

(Searching for guava, I am) What?
(That has flavor, that has mendó)

(Searching for guava, I am)
(That has flavor, that has mendó)

(Searching for guava, I am)
(That has flavor, that has mendó)
A dark-skinned, rescued guava
A guava that is very good

(Searching for guava, I am)
(That has flavor, that has mendó)
Bururu barara, where is Miguel going?
Bururu barara, he went to look for guava too

(Searching for guava, I am)
(That has flavor, that has mendó)
That, but that has a lot of mendó
But that has, that has, a lot of flavor

(Searching for guava, I am)
(That has flavor, that has mendó)
I'm looking for a guava, I'm looking for a guava
I'm looking for a guava, along the path of eight and two

(Searching for guava, I am)
(That has flavor, that has mendó)

That has flavor, that has mendó
(Searching for guava, I am)
Little guava from the savanna

(Searching for guava, I am)
Here, over here, I want a guava

(Searching for guava, I am)
Come and give me a hand
Oh! Help me, comadre

(Searching for guava, I am)
I already see that you, I already see that you
Take it and don't say where it is

(Searching for guava, I am)
Tell me where I can find that beautiful guava, oh my!

(Searching for guava, I am)
That, that I'm always walking, I'm always going, sir

(Searching for guava, I am)
Bururu barara, where is Miguel going?

(Searching for guava, I am)
Come and help, babalao
Tell me where it is, I've never found it

(Searching for guava, I am)
Come with me, because it could happen

(Searching for guava, I am)
That I find that woman and learn to love her

(Searching for guava, I am)
I look for her in the mountains and in the market

(Searching for guava, I am)
No no ro no no no, don't hide anymore and show yourself, dark-skinned girl

(Searching for guava, I am)
That has flavor and that has mendó
(Searching for guava, I am)