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Thread #91919   Message #3266946
Posted By: Monique
01-Dec-11 - 04:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cocorico / Coconito (Mexico)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cocorico (Mexico)
Here they are longer and lightly different:

Coni, coni, coconito,
coni, coni qué caray,
yo le daba su maicito,
antes sí, pero ahora no hay
coni, coni, coconito,
coni, coni, qué caray,
yo le daba su maicito,
siempre sí, pero ahora no hay.

En medio de la sabana
gorgorea un coconito,
y todos los días su nana
le baja maíz del cerrito,
así lo baja tu hermana,
al otro buey su maicito;
coni, coni, coconito,
coni, coni, coconito.

Coni, coni...

No le des tu caridad
a mujer que tenga dueño,
dice por ahí un refrán,
un letrero verdadero:
quien da pan a perro ajeno
pierde el pan y pierde el perro.
coni, coni, coconito,
coni, coni, coconito.

Coni, coni...

Which means more or less
"Turkey, turkey, turkey
Turkey, turkey, why caramba!
I would give it its corn (maize)
I would before but now there's none,
Turkey...
... I always would but now there's none.

In the middle of the plain
a turkey clucks
and every day its owner
brings it corn from the hill
thus does your sister bring
the other ox its corn.
Turkey...

Turkey...

Don't give (your) charity
to a woman with a master/owner
A proverb,
a real sign, says
who gives bread to somebody else's dog
looses the bread and looses the dog
turkey...