No Me Diga
(performed by Andrea Burns, Janet Dacal, Karen Olivo & Mandy Gonzalez)
(from “In The Heights: A New Musical” soundtrack)
[DANIELA:]
Gorgeous!
[CARLA:]
Linda!
[CARLA/DANIELA:]
Tell me something I don’t know!
[VANESSA:]
Vieja!
[DANIELA:]
Sucia!
[CARLA:]
Cabrona!
[CARLA/VANESSA/DANIELA:]
Tell me something I don’t know!
[CARLA:]
A little off the top!
[DANIELA:]
A little off the side!
[NINA:]
A little bit of news you’ve heard around the barrio!
[ALL:]
Tell me something I don’t know!
[DANIELA:]
Bueno
You didn’t hear it from me!
But some little birdie told me
Usnavi had sex with Yolanda!
[NINA/CARLA:]
No me diga!
[VANESSA:]
Ay, no! He’d never go out with a skank like that!
Please tell me you’re joking!
[DANIELA:]
Okay!
Just wanted to see what you’d say!
[CARLA:]
Oh ho, Dani!
[CARLA/NINA/DANIELA:]
Tell me something I don’t know!
[VANESSA:]
What? I don’t care!
[ALL:]
Ay, bendito!
[DANIELA:]
So, Nina, I hear you been talking to Benny
[NINA:]
And what do you hear?
[DANIELA:]
I hear plenty!
They say he’s got quite a big.. taxi!
[CARLA/VANESSA:]
No me diga!
[NINA:]
Okay! I don’t wanna know where you heard all that!
[CARLA:]
I don’t think I know what you mean..
[DANIELA:]
Carla! He’s packing a stretch limousine!
[VANESSA/DANIELA/NINA:]
Tell me something I don’t know!
[CARLA:]
Long as he keeps it clean!
[NINA/VANESSA/DANIELA:]
Ay dios mio!
[DANIELA:]
Nina, seriously, we knew you’d be the one to make it out!
[VANESSA:]
I bet you impressed them all out west;
You were always the best, no doubt!
[CARLA:]
We want front row seats to your graduation…
[DANIELA:]
They’ll call your name…
[DANIELA/CARLA/VANESSA:]
And we’ll scream and shout!
[NINA:]
You guys, I dropped out.
[DANIELA/CARLA/VANESSA:]
No me diga?!
[NINA:]
I should go.
[DANIELA:]
That’s a shitty piece of news.
[CARLA:]
That girl never quit anything.
[VANESSA:]
What the hell happened?
[DANIELA:]
I don’t know..
[DANIELA/CARLA:]
I don’t know
[DANIELA:]
I don’t know…
[CARLA/VANESSA:]
Tell me something I don’t know!
[ALL:]
Qué sé yo?