Listen to Me Baby – English Lyrics

• By: Casa De Leones

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Moviendo, vacilando, sacudiendo

Como una negra mulata suelta cool y pandeando

Borincana que janguea con cubana

Y con dominicana que no le importa nada

Ella quiere reggaeton, reggaeton

Mi ticket le está dando

Jala la mordaza puro la parte sigue guayando

Eh, de cara que quiere sacar chispa y candela

Se declara soltera porque anillo no lleva, baby

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Dime si estás sola y que sí que quiero saber

Si ese grilleta está así es así no te quiero tener

Vamo' allá tú y yo los dos rozándonos, pegándonos

Como si fuera fuego sacándonos leña

Dios bendiga la puertorriqueña, la perla del sur

Dios bendiga la caribeña trigueña

La que mata, le arrebata, media sata, se desbarata

Tú a la hora de cool y witty

U.S., J King

Ja, ja, ¿qué lo está?

Jowell, daddy

Ja, ja

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

Listen to me baby girl 'cause I need to know

If you got a man or if you're riding alone

Mr. J King and Jowell hooked up in this song

Let your body dance, girl, this is reggaeton

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Key Grammar Structures

• If you got a man or if you're riding alone

  ➔ First Conditional (Real Conditionals)

  ➔ The use of "if" followed by present tense implies a real possibility in the present or future.

• Ella quiere reggaeton

  ➔ Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) word order

  ➔ A standard sentence structure where "Ella" is the subject, "quiere" is the verb, and "reggaeton" is the object.

• Moviendo, vacilando, sacudiendo

  ➔ Gerunds (Present Participle)

  ➔ Using the "-ndo" suffix to describe continuous actions or the manner in which the subject is acting.

• Dime si estás sola

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ "Dime" is a command formed by the verb "decir" combined with the indirect object pronoun "me".

• Se declara soltera

  ➔ Reflexive Verbs

  ➔ The use of the "se" pronoun indicates that the action of "declaring" reflects back on the subject.

• No te quiero tener

  ➔ Object Pronoun Placement

  ➔ The pronoun "te" is placed before the conjugated verb "quiero" instead of attached to the infinitive "tener".

• Vamo' allá

  ➔ Apocope (Elision)

  ➔ The word "Vamos" loses its final 's' in informal speech to create "Vamo'".

• Como si fuera fuego

  ➔ Subjunctive (Imperfect Subjunctive)

  ➔ The use of "fuera" (from "ser") with "como si" expresses a hypothetical or contrary-to-fact situation.