From the recordings Hiding Out In Plain Sight and Doña Marina
All vocals and piano by Renee Nanzer
Flute and percussion by Manuel Banks
Bass by John Abbey
Recorded by John Abbey at Kingsize Sound Lab
Lyrics
Doña Marina (3X)
Did you smell the flowers when your mother sold you from your house?
Did you get passed around like a plate of food?
Was someone always trying to get a taste of you?
Doña Marina
Malinche (3X)
Who’s to blame when no one knows your real name?
Did they try to squelch the life from you?
Did your own words ever come through?
Malinche
Malintzin (2x)
Daddy’s little princess, how’d your life become such a mess?
Did they try to squelch the life from you?
Maybe they wanted your silence too.
Instrumental
Bridge: vocal scaffold - Doña Marina, Malinche, Malintzin
Doña Marina (3X)
How’d it go?
Did you gain your freedom or a throne?
Did you gain your freedom or a home?