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Buck-Tick have a song entitled "Taboo" off the album Taboo. It is not a straight cover of "Taboo" by Margarita Lecuona but there is a musical credit to Margarita as Buck-Tick use the main riff (credited as "interlude melody"). Here are the original lyrics in Spanish, a translation, and other info you may be interested in.

Title: Tabú
Composer: Margarita Lecuona


Alma del Africa lejana
llena mi pecho de candelas

Y el pobre congo hijo de esclavo
añora siempre las palmeras
las foscas selvas primitivas
de dioses misteriosos y de fieras

Ochún, Ifá, Obatalá, Changó y Yemayá
Ochún, Ifá, Obatalá, Changó y Yemayá

Tierra del Africa añorada
el río caudaloso y el cielo azul
siempre domina el alma blanca

Tabú...tabú...tabú

Ifá, Changó, Obatalá, Ochún y Yemayá
Ifá, Changó, Obatalá, Ochún y Yemayá

Tabú...tabú...tabú


English lyrics by Sidney Keith "Bob" Russell


Soul of distant Africa
Fills my chest with fire

And the poor child of the slave
Always longs for the palm trees
Of the primitive jungle
Of gods of mystery and war

Ifa, Ochun, Obatala, for Chango and Yemaya
Ifa, Ochun, Obatala, for Chango and Yemaya

Land of the longed for Africa
The deep rivers and blue sky
There, if a black man looks at a white woman

Taboo...taboo...taboo

Ifa, Ochun, Obatala, for Chango and Yemaya
Ifa, Ochun, Obatala, for Chango and Yemaya

Taboo...taboo...taboo

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