Mi JefaE

(pa' ti) (mamá)

Mi jefa! (mi jefa!) Todo pa' mi jefa! (todo!)

Cleaned them offices so I could be a leader

Mi jefa! (mi jefa!) Her name on the paper! (hers!)

Deed say Rosa. Ain't no landlord, ain't no later.

Ya no trabajes. (ya no) Ya no trabajes. (ya no)

Put the mop down, mamá. It's handled.

Bus at ten p.m., downtown, the tall ones with the glass

Forty floors of trash cans, she did 'em all, and fast

Came home when I woke up, smelled like bleach and lemon

Made my eggs with her eyes closed. That was everything. (that's it)

One time she took me with her 'cause the sitter didn't show

I seen a man in a suit step around her like a cone

Didn't say excuse me. Didn't even look.

I was seven. I remember. I wrote it in my book.

She just kept wipin'. Smiled at me. "Mijo, hold the bag."

I held it. I'm still holdin' it. That's the whole drag.

Mi jefa! (mi jefa!) Todo pa' mi jefa! (todo!)

Cleaned them offices so I could be a leader

Mi jefa! (mi jefa!) Her name on the paper! (hers!)

Deed say Rosa. Ain't no landlord, ain't no later.

So the first real money, I ain't touch it for a year

Let it stack while they clowned me in the same beat-up gear

Then I walked her to a house with a tree in the front

Said "whose is this, mijo?" I said "yours." She said "don't." (no juegues)

She cried in Spanish, that's the kind that really count

Then she asked about the payment. I said "there's no amount."

Now she got a garden and a chair and a dog named Frijol

She still try to clean MY house when she come, that's her soul

Le debo todo y nunca me lo va a cobrar

So I pay it anyway. Every day. Sin parar.

That man in the suit?

I bought his building.

(MI JEFA!)

Mi jefa! (mi jefa!) Todo pa' mi jefa! (todo!)

Cleaned them offices so I could be a leader

Mi jefa! (mi jefa!) Her name on the paper! (hers!)

Deed say Rosa. Ain't no landlord, ain't no later.

Ya no trabajes. (ya no) Ya no trabajes. (ya no)

Siéntate, mamá. I got it from here.