Can anyone help with a translation? (Spanish/Portuguese?)

[Goodman]

It's from a Santana song called "Hannibal". It's a great jam but I've always wondered what they were saying:

Ah ya e ya
Ah e yea ya
Oba ibo si areo
Ergua mala gura
Obakoso cabiosile ache

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffEzZ6M6WYc

[Focused Gunfire]

I tried popping that mess into a translator and got very little. I tried looking up the songs meaning, but it didn’t show much. The last part has some thing to do with an old south American god/king, Obakoso. The cabiosile is a greeting to a king or something. I’m interested in this now, but I got other things to do right now.

[deth502]

translator wants to auto detect it as esperanto.

[Kadmos]

(Some persons name) your back side makes my heart ache.

I think the meaning is basically "You are breaking my heart by walking away"

[Goodman]

(Some persons name) your back side makes my heart ache.

I think the meaning is basically "You are breaking my heart by walking away"

Interesting. How did you come up w that?

[cevulirn]

http://youtu.be/C5gm4os3ZTA

[Kadmos]

Interesting. How did you come up w that?

The first part "Ah ya e ya Ah e yea ya" is just sounds...sort of affectionate sounds like "oo la la's" or "yeah baby's" that you might hear in American songs

Then "Oba ibo" I think is a name

"si areo" another area (said by a male)

"Ergua mala gura" (something) bad feeling

Obakoso cabiosile ache (somebody's name, possibly an affectionate adaptation of the same above name (like "Mitzi" for a Michelle)

cabliosile is tough, might be a latin root turned pidgin language usage for "heart", might be a bad spelling of "kabiosile" which is a sort of Cuban rural music/culture of former slaves

And then "ache" is ache...like heart ache.

I think it's based on some bit of pidgin language, a mix of Spanish, Esperanto, and possibly local dialect.

Since those base back to Latin, I'm making guesses at long ago learned (poorly) Latin, with what little Spanish and Esperanto I know, weighing it against common song themes (women leaving is rather old and popular).

Anyway, that's my best sense of it. However it could very well be about a cheesecake he ate once in Mala, Peru

[Goodman]

The first part "Ah ya e ya Ah e yea ya" is just sounds...sort of affectionate sounds like "oo la la's" or "yeah baby's" that you might hear in American songs

Then "Oba ibo" I think is a name

"si areo" another area (said by a male)

"Ergua mala gura" (something) bad feeling

Obakoso cabiosile ache (somebody's name, possibly an affectionate adaptation of the same above name (like "Mitzi" for a Michelle)

cabliosile is tough, might be a latin root turned pidgin language usage for "heart", might be a bad spelling of "kabiosile" which is a sort of Cuban rural music/culture of former slaves

And then "ache" is ache...like heart ache.

I think it's based on some bit of pidgin language, a mix of Spanish, Esperanto, and possibly local dialect.

Since those base back to Latin, I'm making guesses at long ago learned (poorly) Latin, with what little Spanish and Esperanto I know, weighing it against common song themes (women leaving is rather old and popular).

Anyway, that's my best sense of it. However it could very well be about a cheesecake he ate once in Mala, Peru

Well that's more solidly based than what I came up with- from throwing out a few Google searches.
About all I gathered was that obakoso was a greeting for Shango, but I have nothing on which to substantiate that.