Composer: Irah Caldeira
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Me perguntaram se coco de embolada
É coco de língua trocada
E sincopada é coco de língua embolar
Eu respondi que trocada de língua é coco
Sincopada embolar a língua
E trôco de língua sincopa o embolar
Tenha cuidado quando for quebrar um coco
Pois o coco mal quebrado
Faz cantador se enrolar
E o cantador que é sabido não se enrola
Pega a língua e desembola
E não deixa o coco quebrar
Na embolada cantador que canta a tôa
Não conhece toda lôa
E faz a rima ficar chata
E o cantador que não embola e só empata
Quebra a rima e não ata
Não engata e nem desata
Translation
They asked me if coco de embolada
Is coco of switched tongue
And syncopated is coco of tangled tongue
I answered that switched tongue is coco
Syncopated tangles the tongue
And a tongue switch syncopates the tangling
Be careful when you go to break a coco
Because the coco badly broken
Makes the singer get tangled up
And the singer who is smart doesn't get tangled up
Takes the tongue and untangles it
And doesn't let the coco break
In embolada, a singer who sings aimlessly
Doesn't know the whole art
And makes the rhyme become boring
And the singer who doesn't tangle and only stalls
Breaks the rhyme and doesn't tie
Doesn't engage and doesn't disengage
