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16th Century Man

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16th Century Man

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Oh it's great to see our homeland

Breathe the Iberian atmosphere

Just because we are Hispanic

Doesn't mean we're oceanic

Quite frankly we've had water up to here

We've made waves to last a lifetime

We've been saturated, almost drowned

We aer Spanish, not Caribbean

We are human, not amphibian

We'll seek our fortunes on Spain's solid ground

There's no future in the new world

Only fools believe the tales

Of the gold of El Dorado

Only suckers set their sails

We habe seen the way the tide is turning

Cortez is a charlatan

We are on the ball, discerning

We're anti-diluvian

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There are women who are lining

Every avenue in every port

Now at last we'll get to grips with

The things they never equip ships with

We habe sailed into our last resort

There's no gold mine in the new world

It's a trick to get recruits

On the boat to El Dorado

We're returning to our roots

We're going back to land locked ladies

Cortez never letz them board

All in all the point we've made is

We don't want to go abroad

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