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Mayombe-bombe-mayombe
Mayombe-bombe-mayombe
La culebra tiene los ojos de vidrio; la culebra viene y se enreda en un palo; con sus ojos de vidrio, en un palo, con sus ojos de vidrio. La culebra camina sin patas, la culebra se en la yerba; caminando se esconde en la yerba, caminando sin patas. |
| | | English translation:sensemaya: water goddes/mother of goddes | Explanation:
The snake has glassy eyes,
The snake comes and coils around a stick,
with its glassy eyes, coiled around a stick,
with its glassy eyes.
The snake walks without legs,
The snake hides in the grass,
walking, it ghides in the glass,
walking without legs.
Mayombe bombe, mayombe
mayombe bombe moyombe
mayombe bombe, mayombe.
you hit it with the ax and it dies
hit it now!
don't kick it for it will bite
don't kick it for it'll get away.
Sensemaya, the snake sensemaya
sensemaya with its eyes sensemaya
sensemaya with its tongue sensemaya
sensemaya with its mouth sensemaya.
dead snake cannot eat,
dead snake cannot hiss,
They cannot walk,
They cannot run.
dead snake cannot see,
dead snake cannot drink,
They cannot breathe
They cannot bite.
mayombe bombe mayombe
sensemaya the snake
mayombe bombe, mayombe
sensemaya does not move
mayombe bombe, mayombe
sensemaya the snake
mayombe bombe, mayombe
sensemaya, it is dead.
mayombe bombe, mayombe: Yoruba words, common in the poetry of Nicolas
Guillen.
sensemaya: water goddes/mother of goddes.
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Explanation:
The snake has glassy eyes,
The snake comes and coils around a stick,
with its glassy eyes, coiled around a stick,
with its glassy eyes.
The snake walks without legs,
The snake hides in the grass,
walking, it ghides in the glass,
walking without legs.
Mayombe bombe, mayombe
mayombe bombe moyombe
mayombe bombe, mayombe.
you hit it with the ax and it dies
hit it now!
don't kick it for it will bite
don't kick it for it'll get away.
Sensemaya, the snake sensemaya
sensemaya with its eyes sensemaya
sensemaya with its tongue sensemaya
sensemaya with its mouth sensemaya.
dead snake cannot eat,
dead snake cannot hiss,
They cannot walk,
They cannot run.
dead snake cannot see,
dead snake cannot drink,
They cannot breathe
They cannot bite.
mayombe bombe mayombe
sensemaya the snake
mayombe bombe, mayombe
sensemaya does not move
mayombe bombe, mayombe
sensemaya the snake
mayombe bombe, mayombe
sensemaya, it is dead.
mayombe bombe, mayombe: Yoruba words, common in the poetry of Nicolas
Guillen.
sensemaya: water goddes/mother of goddes.
| Erika McGovern
United States
Local time: 13:31
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in pair: 165
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