On Your Feet - Oye Mi Canto Lyrics

Broadway 2016 - The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan
On Your Feet! the Musical - Oye Mi Canto Lyrics

REBECCA & GLORIA:
Someday it'll be alright
Changes happen overnight

GLORIA: (spoken)
Hello London! Gracias por todo el amor!
Our first world tour!
One hundred and seventy cities,
Four continents and it all starts here!
Show us what you got, London!

BACKUP SINGERS & CROWD:
Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!

GLORIA & CROWD:
Oye mi canto!

GLORIA:
I believe in love but with no conditions

BACKUP SINGERS & CROWD:
Oye mi canto!

GLORIA:
And giving in sometimes doesn't make it submission

BACKUP SINGERS & CROWD:
Oye mi canto!

GLORIA:
Hate is so common it's almost tradition

BACKUP SINGERS & CROWD:
Oye mi canto!

GLORIA:
Come on, let's leave it behind and make that transition

BACKUP SINGERS & CROWD:
Oye mi canto!

JOSÉ:
Curioso destino, que aún me separa

EMILIO: (spoken)
When my father and I first left Cuba,
We had to stop here in Madrid before we can go to Miami.

GLORIA: (spoken)
You told me.

EMILIO: (spoken)
The day we arrive, we arrive in this exact terminal.

EMILIO'S MOTHER: (spoken)
Emilito, it's time for you to go now.
Your father's waiting for you by the plane.

YOUNG EMILIO: (spoken)
You have to come with us, mommy!

EMILIO'S MOTHER: (spoken)
I can't, Emilito. I can't.

EMILIO'S GRANDPA: (spoken)
Come here Emilito, come here!

YOUNG EMILIO: (spoken)
Yes, grandpa?

EMILIO'S GRANDPA: (spoken)
Emilito, do you feel this nose? Do you feel this ear?
Do you feel my beard? Look at me. Don't ever forget them, okay?

YOUNG EMILIO: (spoken)
Mommy?

EMILIO'S MOTHER: (spoken)
Yes?

YOUNG EMILIO & EMILIO: (spoken)
I'm gonna get us all to Miami. I promise.