Maria Maria - Live Session, Austin, TX, 2019

Ladies and gents, turn up your sound systems to the sound of Carlos

Santana and the G&B,

it's The Product of get-away blues from the refugee camp

Maria, Maria

She remind me of a West Side story

Growing up in Spanish Harlem

She living a life just like a movie star

Maria, Maria

She fell in love in East L.A

To the sounds of the guitar, yeah, yeah

Played by Carlos Santana

Stop the looting, stop the shooting

Pick pocking on the corner

See as the rich is getting richer

The poor is getting poorer

Se mira Maria on the corner

Thinking of ways to make it better

In my mailbox there's an eviction letter

Signed by the judge, said, "See you later."

Ahora vengo mama chola mama chola

Ahora vengo mama chola (East Coast)

Ahora vengo mama chola mama chola

Ahora vengo mama chola (West Coast)

Maria, Maria

She remind me of a West Side story

Growing up in Spanish Harlem

She living a life just like a movie star

Maria, Maria

She fell in love in East L.A

I said it to the sounds of the guitar, yeah, yeah

(By who?)

Played by Carlos Santana

I said a la favella los colores

The streets are getting hotter

There is no water to put out the fire

Ni gota de esperanza

Se mira Maria on the corner

Thinking of ways to make it better

Then I looked up in the sky

Hoping the days of paradise

Ahora vengo mama chola mama chola

Ahora vengo mama chola (North Side)

Ahora vengo mama chola mama chola

Ahora vengo mama chola (South Side)

Ahora vengo mama chola mama chola

Ahora vengo mama chola (world-wide)

Ahora vengo mama chola mama chola

Ahora vengo mama chola (open up your eyes)

Maria you know you're my lover

When the wind blows

I can feel you through the weather

And even when we're apart

Still feels like we're together

Maria

She remind me of a West Side story

Growing up in Spanish Harlem

She living a life just like a movie star

Maria, Maria

She fell in love in East L.A

To the sounds of the guitar

Played by Carlos Santana

Put 'em up, yo

Carlos Santana with the refugee camp

Wyclef, Jerry Wonda, Mr. Santana, G&B

Yo, Carlos, man, you're making that guitar cry