Lá na Bahia, Côco de Dendê

🇧🇷 Portuguese

Lá na Bahia côco de dendê

Lá na Bahia côco de dendê

Pega devagar

Com dendê

Pega devagar

Com dendê

🇨🇦 English

There is in Bahia palm oil of Coconut

There is in Bahia palm oil of Coconut

Take it slow

With Dende

Take it slow

With Dende

Video

Type

Corridos

Difficulty

Aluno

Rhythms

São Bento Pequeno

History

In this song the coconut is a metaphor for someone's head. Dendê refers to a type of oil (red palm oil), but in this song it has a subtler meaning of something that is delicious but also bad for you since it is slippery (like the oil).