Las Ketchup Songs - The Ketchup Song Lyrics

Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song

Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Las Ketchup
Released: 2002

The Ketchup Song Lyrics

Mira lo que se avecina
A la vuelta de la esquina
Viene Diego rumbeando

Con la luna en las pupilas
Y su traje agua marina
Parece de contrabando

Y donde mas no cabe un alma
Alli se mete a darse caña
Poseido por el ritmo ragatanga

Y el dj que lo conoce
Toca el himno de las doce
Para Diego la cancion mas deseada
Why la baila, why la goza why la canta

Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí

No es cosa de brujería
Que lo encuentre tos los dias
Por donde voy caminando

Diego tiene chuleria
Why ese punto de alegria
Rastafari afrogitano

Y donde mas no cabe un alma
Alli se mete a darse caña
Poseido por el ritmo ragatanga

Y el dj que lo conoce
Toca el himno de las doce
Para Diego la cancion mas deseada
Y la baila, why la goza why la canta

Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí

Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí

Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba
Majabi an de bugui an de buididipí

Writer/s: RUIZ GOMEZ, FRANCISCO / BENITO, MANNY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The Ketchup Song

The group is made up of Pilar, Lola, and Lucia Munoz - 3 sisters from the Andalusia region of Spain. They took their name in honor of their father, a flamenco guitarist known as "El Tomate."

This was a huge international hit. It was #1 in several countries, but took a while to break in America, where it was first played on New York City dance station WKTU. Within 24 hours, it became the most requested song on the station.

The lyrics are based on snippets of the 1979 Sugar Hill Gang song "Rapper's Delight."

The lyrics are in Spanish, but it is Spanish gibberish based on "Rapper's Delight." The version released in the US has some English gibberish mixed in.

The song is about a gypsy named Diego who is very concerned about how he is dressed and loves "Rapper's Delight." Since Diego doesn't understand the English lyrics, he makes up his own raps, which translates into the gibberish in the song.

The Spanish version is known as "Asereje," as in "I Said A Hip," which is a lyric in "Rapper's Delight."

Has it's own dance, involving a kind of hand-jive and lots of gyrations.

This has been compared to the "Macarena," which was also a huge international hit by an unknown group with it's own dance that became a staple of dance clubs, cruise ships, and weddings when it eventually hit the US.

In the US, this got a lot of airplay on Spanish stations as well as the TV show Sabado Gigante before getting much mainstream airplay. It was especially popular in South Florida, which has a large Hispanic population.

Ketchup, or catsup, originated in China in 1690 as a pickled fish sauce called "ke-tsiap." British sailors took Asian catsup or ketchup from Singapore to England but the British were unable to duplicate the recipe so they started substituting other ingredients, including ground mushrooms, walnuts, and cucumbers. Later the first recipe for "tomato catsup" appeared. (From the book Food for Thought: Extraordinary Little Chronicles of the World by Ed Pearce)

Despite the lyrics being Spanish gibberish, this was the best-selling single in France during the 2000s.