Primera de Jarana (picarescas)
Una negra tuve yo,
Que usaba pelo postizo,
No se que le paso
Que el pelo se le cayo.(1)
Manuel micho por capricho
Mechó la carne del macho.
Ayer decia un borracho:
Mucho macho mecha micho.(2)
Aquí estoy porque he venido,
Porque he venido aquí estoy,
Si me ponen mala cara,
Como he venido me voy.(3)
Me quejo porque me duele,
Porque si no me quejara
¿quien es aquel que se queja
Si nunca le duele nada?(4)
El reloj de san andres
Tiene tino pero poco,
Como es hechura de un loco
Da las horas al revés.(5)
Vide al chinche tocar arpa
A la gallina coser,
Al raton cantando en misa
Y al gato aprendiendo a leer.(6)
Vi yo un entierro pasar,
Pregunté quién se moría
Y el cura me contestó:
Aque que van a enterrar.(7)
Ya salieron a bailar
La rosa con el clavel,
El clavel a marchitarse
Y la rosa a florecer.(8)
Lo que pasando pasó
Y paso a paso,pasando,
Pasando se va olvidando
Lo que pasando pasó.(9)
Negra la capilla ardiente
Negro el muerto y su ataud,
Adentro llora la gente,
Afuera dicen salud. (10)
First Jarana (mischievous)
I had a black woman
Who wore a wig
I don't know what happened
That her hair fell out.
Manuel mixed for whim
Mixed the meat of the male
Yesterday a drunkard said:
A lot of male mixes Manuel.
Here I am because I have come
Because I have come, here I am
If they give me a bad look
As I came, I'll leave.
I complain because it hurts me
Because if I didn't complain
Who is the one who complains
If nothing ever hurts him?
The clock of San Andres
Is accurate but little
As it is the creation of a madman
It gives the hours backwards.
I saw the bedbug playing the harp
The hen sewing
The mouse singing in mass
And the cat learning to read.
I saw a funeral pass by
I asked who was dying
And the priest replied:
Those who are going to bury.
They have already started to dance
The rose with the carnation
The carnation wilting
And the rose blooming.
What happened, happened
And step by step, happening
Happening it is forgotten
What happened, happened.
Black the burning chapel
Black the dead and his coffin
Inside people cry
Outside they say bless you.