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Paco Pico


Artist: That Beach Sound Cartel
Artist's Description
Playful Spanglish Afro-Cuban salsa/guaracha fused with vintage surf rock. Male Cuban lead, lively coro, horns, percussion and spring-reverb guitar. A colorful, humorous character song suited to beach, travel, comedy and Latin-themed projects.

Genre(s): Afro-Cuban, Tropical/Samba, Surf Rock, Cuba
Mood(s): Epic, Playful
Style(s): Soundscape, Summer
Language(s): English
Paco PicoStandard License:$79.00
Extended License:$199.00
COPYRIGHT TRANSFER ENQUIRY PRICE:$5,000.00

Paco Pico

By That Beach Sound Cartel
Oye…

¿Tú conoces a Paco-Pico?

Everybody knows Paco-Pico.

¡Dale!

[Verse 1]

They call him Paco-Pico
Francisco pa’ su mamá

Forty-something, flaco y loco
El rey de toda La Habana

Green eyes como botella
Pelo rubio, salt and sun

Skinny, brown, sin pelo en el pecho
When the swell comes, he’s the one

Every morning por la costa
He goes looking through the sand

For colillas, wax and wire
Pa’ la tabla made by hand

It shouldn’t float
It shouldn’t turn

It shouldn’t ride at all

Pero Paco Pico grita, “¡Asere!”
And goes dancing down the wall

[Pre-Chorus]

He puts a tabaco in his boca
Strikes a match against the stone

Takes a pull and tells the ocean

“Hoy tú y yo estamos alone.”

[Chorus]

Paco-Pico
Dale, dale

Light it up and ride that wave

Paco-Pico
¿Qué bolá?

Nobody surfs this Cuban way

Con el tabaco in his boca
Con candela in his green eyes

When the wave comes down to drown him
He comes smoking out the other side

¡Paco-Pico!

Míralo, míralo…

¡Paco-Pico!


Con el tabaco prendío…

[Verse 2]

No tiene tienda de surfboards
No resin from the USA

Just basura from la playa
And un invento to ride the wave

Cigarette butts make the bottom
Telephone wire makes the fin

A little cera de una vela
And Paco Pico paddles out again

Los muchachos on the shoreline
Say, “That board is gonna break!”

Paco laughs detrás del humo

“Then I’ll build another—¿y qué?”

A twenty-footer starts to rise
The whole malecón goes quiet

Paco Pico takes one final drag

“Caballeros… watch me ride it.”

[Pre-Chorus]

He puts the fire in his boca
Points that crazy board toward home

Then disappears beneath the water

Ay, mi madre…

¡Se acabó!

¿Paco Pico?

¡Aquí estoy, coño!

[Chorus]

Paco Pico
Dale, dale

Light it up and ride that wave

Paco Pico
¿Qué bolá?

Nobody surfs this Cuban way

Con el tabaco in his boca
Con candela in his eyes

When the wave comes down to drown him
He comes smoking out the other side

¡Con el tabaco prendío!

He goes under, comes back smiling

¡Con el tabaco prendío!

Cuarenta y Pico, still surviving

¡Con el tabaco prendío!

Ojos verdes, pelo de oro

¡Con el tabaco prendío!

Flaco y tostado como un moro

Paco Pico viene
Paco Pico va

Con su tabla hecha en La Habana

Butts and wire
Wax and foam

Paco Pico brings it home

Paco Pico viene
Paco Pico va

Con candela en la quijada

Wave goes over
Paco Pico goes under

Comes back smoking like Cuban thunder

Who’s that flying por la costa?

¡Paco Pico, míralo!

Who comes laughing from the barrel?

¡Con el tabaco prendío!

Who built a board from old colillas?

¡Un invento que él creó!


La ola se fue…

¡Pero el tabaco quedó!

[Final Chorus]

Paco Pico
Dale, dale

Light it up and ride that wave

Paco Pico
¿Qué bolá?

Nobody surfs the Cuban way

Con el tabaco in his boca
Con candela in his eyes

When the wave comes down to drown him
He comes smoking out the other side

¡Paco-Pico!

El surfista de La Habana

¡Paco Pico!

Con su tabla hecha a mano

¡Paco Pico!

La ola se fue…

¡Pero el tabaco quedó!

[Outro]

Oye, Paco Pico…

¿Ese tabaco nunca se apaga?

No.

Yo tampoco.
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