Patuscada Lyrics Translation in English

Um dia, numa noite enluarada

One day, on a moonlit night

Numa hora improvisada

At an improvised hour

Lá no céu teve uma festa

Up in the sky, there was a party

Juntou a fina flor da bicharada

Gathered the finest of the animal kingdom

E o que foi a patuscada

And what a revelry it was

Até deus já duvidou

Even God began to doubt

Macaco se vestiu de marinheiro

A monkey dressed as a sailor

Gafanhoto era goleiro

A grasshopper as a goalkeeper

Marimbondo sacristão

A wasp as a sexton

Aranha fez a teia na gandaia

A spider spun a web in the revelry

E o veado era cobaia

And the deer was the guinea pig

Jabuti tabelião

A tortoise as the notary

Arara, tinha uma da amazônia

A macaw, one from the Amazon

Na maior sem-cerimônia

Without any ceremony

Mal sabia soletrar

Barely able to spell

Havia tatu-bola dando bola

There was an armadillo playing ball

Cobra d´água na viola

Water snake on the guitar

Só de papo para o ar

Just chatting away

Urubu tirou a dama

Vulture took the lady

Jaburu fazia charme

Stork was charming

Araponga deu alarme

Cuckoo gave the alarm

Foi virando um sururu

It turned into a commotion

Cachorro com coleira de linguiça

Dog with a sausage leash

E a preguiça com preguiça

Sloth with laziness

De parar de descansar

Reluctant to stop resting

Formiga tinha pau da tanajura

Ant had a stick from the termite

Que no jogo de cintura

Who, with agility

Era dona do lugar

Was the owner of the place

Macaco derramado no discurso

Monkey, sprawled in speech

Apoiava o amigo urso

Supported his bear friend

Canditado a senador

Running for senator

Bode jogava jogo duro

Goat played tough

Emprestava só a juro

Only lent at interest

Era franco atirador

Was a sharpshooter

Pica-pau furou a fila

Woodpecker cut in line

Bem-te-vi cantou de galo

Great kiskadee acted like a rooster

Deram um trote no cavalo

They played a prank on the horse

Que caiu que nem jacu

Which fell like a guan

Calango dançou tango com a lacraia

Little lizard danced tango with the centipede

E o marido da jandaia

And the jandaia's husband

Reclamou do gavião

Complained about the hawk

Morcego deu rasante na galinha

Bat made a swoop at the hen

Periquito entrou na rinha

Parakeet entered the fray

Pra tomar satisfação

To seek an explanation

O sapo de chapéu e suspensório

The frog in a hat and suspenders

Tinha vindo de um velório

Had come from a funeral

Na maior animação

In great animation

A zebra, que acertou na loteria,

The zebra, who hit the lottery

Desfilou na freguesia

Paraded in the neighborhood

Com a parte do leão

With the lion's share

Beija-flor de mão beijada

Hand-kissed hummingbird

Jacaré de dedo em riste

Alligator with a pointing finger

Vira bosta no alpiste

Turns into droppings in the birdseed

Tico-tico no fubá

Sparrow in the cornmeal