La Cherry – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Junior H

Lyrics & Translation

‘La Cherry’ is an excellent entry point for learning contemporary Mexican Spanish. By listening to this song, you can familiarize yourself with the specific slang and regional colloquialisms used in modern regional Mexican music, providing a window into the vibrant cultural vocabulary of the Corridos Tumbados movement.

[English]

[Music]

Like Dom Pérignon, smoking on that cherry, it kills me

The way she moves

That little dress

With her

Wild side, she's not

Just anyone, I swear you don't

Leave my mind, baby, it's just that once wasn't

Enough, I only think about seeing you and

Eating you

Again, dancing

Reggaeton in my

Room, just us, I'm losing my

Mind, ordering Dom Pérignon at the club, baby

I’ve been watching you for a while

Now, swapping glances, lighting

Sparklers in the

Club, sending bottles over, I'll pay for your friends

Because you look classy

So classy, like Dom Pérignon, smoking that

Cherry, it kills me, the way she moves that little dress

Offends with that

Wild side, she's not

Just anyone, I swear you don't

Leave my mind

[Music]

Baby

It’s just that one

Time wasn't

Enough, I only think about seeing you and

Eating you

Again, dancing

Reggaeton in my

Room, just us, losing

[Music]

Control, Dom Pérignon at the

Club, I’ve been watching you for a while

Now, swapping glances, lighting

Sparklers in the club, sending several bottles

Your way, I'll pay for your friends because

You look classy

So classy, like Dom Pérignon, smoking that

Cherry, it kills me, the way she moves that little dress

Offends with that

Wild side, she's not

Just anyone, I swear you don't

Leave my mind

[Music]

Baby

foreign

[Spanish]

[Música]

como Don per quemando la cherry me mata

como mueve

vestidito

para la

bellaquera ella No es

cualquiera te juro que de mi mente no

sales baby es que una vez no fue

suficiente solo pienso en verte y otra

vez

comerte bailando

reguetón en mi

habitación solito estoy yo perdiendo el

encontró pido Don peri en el antro beb

ya desde hace rato que yo te estaba

mirando de miradas intercambio prend

vengalas en el

antro tase mando a tus amigas les pago

porque te ves fina

como fina como Don per quemando la

cherry me mata có mueve el vese de tu

ofende con la

bellaquera ella no es

cualquera te juro que de mi mente no

sales

[Música]

beb

es que una

vez Fue

suficiente solo pienso en verte y otra

vez

comerte bailando

reguetón en mi

habitación solitos tú y yo perdiendo el

[Música]

control Don per en el

antro des hace rato que yo te estaba

mirando de miradas intercambio prend

vengalas en el antro varias botellitas

te mando Te a tus amigas les pago porque

te ves fina

como fina como Don peri quemando la

cherry me mata con mueve el vestidito

fend con la

bellaquera que ya no es

cualquiera te juro que de mi mente no

sales

[Música]

beb

foreign

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
quemando ke-man-do A2	verb - Burning; in this context, smoking.
bellaquera be-ya-ke-ra C2	noun - Colloquial term for sexual desire or seductive attitude.
cualquiera kual-kye-ra A2	adjective - Anyone; someone common or without special distinction.
suficiente su-fi-syen-te A2	adjective - Enough; adequate.
habitación a-bi-ta-syown A1	noun - Room.
control kon-trol A2	noun - Control; dominance.
antro an-tro B2	noun - Nightclub or club.
miradas mi-ra-das A2	noun - Looks; eye contact.
intercambio in-ter-kam-byo B1	noun - Exchange.
bengalas ben-ga-las B2	noun - Flares; sparklers.
fina fi-na A2	adjective - Fine; elegant.
vestidito ves-ti-di-to B1	noun - Little dress.
mente men-te A2	noun - Mind.
juro hu-ro B1	verb - I swear.
botellitas bo-te-yi-tas A2	noun - Little bottles.

Key Grammar Structures

• Como Don Peri quemando la cherry me mata

  ➔ Gerund (Gerundio)

  ➔ The "-ando" suffix indicates an ongoing action or the way in which the main action occurs.

• Ella no es cualquiera

  ➔ Indefinite Pronoun

  ➔ "Cualquiera" functions as an indefinite pronoun meaning "just anyone" or "anybody".

• Te juro que de mi mente no sales

  ➔ Present Indicative for habitual/emotional fact

  ➔ The verb "sales" (from salir) is used here to describe a persistent, current state of mind.

• Una vez no fue suficiente

  ➔ Preterite Tense (Pretérito Indefinido)

  ➔ The verb "fue" (from ser) marks a completed action in the past.

• Solo pienso en verte y otra vez comerte

  ➔ Prepositional infinitive construction

  ➔ The preposition "en" is followed by infinitives "verte" and "comerte" to express the object of the verb "pienso".

• Ya desde hace rato que yo te estaba mirando

  ➔ Periphrastic construction (Imperfect Progressive)

  ➔ "Estaba mirando" describes an ongoing action that was happening in the past.

• A tus amigas les pago

  ➔ Indirect Object Pronoun

  ➔ The pronoun "les" identifies who is receiving the action (paying).

• Porque te ves fina

  ➔ Reflexive verb usage for perception

  ➔ "Ves" (from verse) here suggests how someone looks/appears to others.