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Cobra Jibóia

Eu hoje estou me lembrando
Mas não é da sucuri
É de uma cobra maior
Lá do rio Capinguí
Quinze metros é o tamanho
E a mais grossa que eu já vi
Uma tal cobra jiboia
Dessa o compadre não ri

Os pescadores não pescavam
De tanto medo que tinham
Mandei chamar meu compadre
Me mandou dizer que vinha
Sem demora ele chegou
Lambendo a sua faquinha
Me perguntou debochando
A onde está a cobrinha

Eu disse pro meu compadre
Tá no rio Capinguí
Vai andando pela costa
A cobra anda por ali
Meu compadre envermelhou
E disse tu tens que ir
Então prá não apanhar
Junto eu tive que sair

Nós chegamos na barranca
Meu corpo se arrepiava
Meu compadre se lambia
De medo eu assobiava
A água fez uma onda
Na onda a cobra espiava
Daqui a pouco a cobra veio
Eu senti que me molhava

Meu compadre vendo a cobra
Já fez uma pirueta
Manobrava sua faquinha
E eu fazia careta
A cobra veio piando
Subindo na barranqueta
E eu também já fui subindo
Num pé de figueira preta

Lá de cima eu tava vendo
Meu compadre atrapalhado
Querendo engolir a cobra
Mas dessa vez foi trocada
Ela que engoliu ele
Tive pena do coitado
Mas meu compadre foi vivo
E já saiu do outro lado

Conseguiu matar a cobra
Lá de cima eu não desci
Meu compadre estava bravo
E eu quase morto de ri
Ele perguntou porquê
Eu então lhe respondi
Cobra cumprida demais
O senhor não pode engolir

Boa Constrictor

I'm remembering today
But it's not about the anaconda
It's about a bigger snake
From the Capinguí River
Fifteen meters long
And the thickest I've ever seen
A boa constrictor like that
You can't make fun of it

The fishermen didn't fish
They were so scared
I sent for my friend
He sent word that he was coming
He arrived without delay
Licking his knife
He asked me mockingly
Where's the little snake

I told my friend
It's in the Capinguí River
It's walking along the shore
The snake is walking around there
My friend blushed
And said you have to go
So as not to get caught
I had to go out with him

We arrived at the bank
My body shivered
My friend licked his lips
I whistled in fear
The water made a wave
The snake peeked out in the wave
Soon the snake came
I felt it get me wet

Seeing the snake
My friend already did a pirouette
He maneuvered his knife
And I made a face
The snake came whistling
Climbing up the ledge
And I was climbing too
On a black fig tree

From up there I was watching
My friend, confused
Trying to swallow the snake
But this time it was switched
She swallowed him
I felt sorry for the poor guy
But my friend was alive
And he came out the other side

He managed to kill the snake
I didn't come down from up there
My friend was angry
And I was almost dead laughing
He asked why
Then I answered him
The snake was too long
You can't swallow it