Foreshadowing Lyrics?

Songwriter: Robert Angleró
Singer: Rúben Blades (from El Gran Combo at the time)

Written in the early 1980s, the old-school salsa song "Si Dios Fuera Negro" or if "If God Were Black" discusses how the world would have been different if the song title were true. The song is powerful. Lyrics have been translated by intended meaning not by direct translation; it's the best way to translate anything from one language to another. See for yourself:

Si Dios fuera negro -mi compay- todo cambiaría

If God were black - my friend - everything would change
Fuera nuestra raza -mi compay- la que mandaría

Our race - my friend - would be in charge

Negro el presidente y el gobernador

Black would be the president and the governor too
Negro el abogado y negro el doctor compay

Black would be the lawyer and black would be the doctor, my friend

Chorus

Negra la azucena

Black the lily
Y negra la tiza

And black the chalk

Negra Blanca Nieve

A black Snow White
Negra Mona Lisa

A black Mona Lisa

Chorus

Negro fuera el día

Black would be daylight
Negro fuera el sol

Black would be the sun
Negra la mañana

Black would be the morning
Negro el algodón

Black would be cotton

Chorus

Negro fuera el Papa

Black would be the Pope
Y negro el ministro

And black the minister
Los angeles negros

Black angels
Negro Jesus Cristo -compay-

A black Jesus Christ-my friend-