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16 Dec 2006, 6:42 am / Full of life
ESTO ES PARA QUE GOZEN SE TITULA: THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CUBAN STYLE,
BESOS, MAYRA
> >> 'Twas the night before Christmas and
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> >> all through the casa -
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> >> not a creature was stirring...
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> >> Oye Chico!! Que pasa!
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> >> Los niños were all tucked away in their camas
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> >> some in long underwear and some in payamas.
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> >> While mamá worked late in her little cocina,
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> >> Papá cooked the pork in la "Caja China!"
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> >> The stockings were hanging with mucho cuidado
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> >> in hopes that Ol' Santa would feel obligado.
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> >> To bring all the children, be they buenos o malos,
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> >> a nice batch of dulces y muchos regalos.
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> >> Outside in la calle there arose such a GRITO!
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> >> That I jumped to my feet like a frightened gatico..
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> >> I ran to the window and
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> >>looked pa' afuera,
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> >> and who in the world do you think quien era?
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> >> Santi Clo' in a sleigh, wearing a red Guayabera!
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> >> And pulling his sleigh instead of venados,
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> >> were eight burritos aterrizando vo lados.
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> >> I watched as they came, as this fat little hombre
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> >> was shouting and whistling and calling by nombre:
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> >> Ay, Pancho! Ay, Pepe! Oye, Cuca! Ay, Beto!
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> >> Ay, Nacho! Ay, Cuco, Maruca ?y su Nieto!
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> >> Then standing erect with his hand on his pecho,
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> >> He flew to the top of our own little techo!
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> >> With his round little belly like a bowl of jalea,
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> >> He looked around y entonces gritó!
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> >> "Oye, chico, y... ¿ donde está la chimenea!?!?"
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> >> Then huffing and puffing, and at last in our sala,
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> >> With his bag of toys and his guayabera de gala.
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> >> He filled ALL the
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> >>stockings with lovely regalos,
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> >> 'Cause none of the niños had been very malos,
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> >> Then laughing out loud, seeming very contento,
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> >> He turned like a flash and was gone como el viento.
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> >> And then, I heard him exclaim, and this is PURA VERDAD.
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> >> "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Y FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!! "
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