O coco que tem dendê

Na Bahia tem um coco
Na Bahia tem um coco
Que se chama coco de sinhá
É precisa de duas quedas
Pra esse coco se quebrar
É o coco mironga que tem dendê

É o coco que tem dendê

Tem dendê, tem dendê

É o coco que tem dendê

A Capoeira tem dendê

É o coco que tem dendê

O Berimbau tem dendê

É o coco que tem dendê

In Bahia there is a coconut
In Bahia there is a coconut
Called coconut of sinhá
And it needs two hits
To break this coconut
It Mironga coconut that have dendê

It’s a coconut that have dendê

It has palm oil, palm oil (dendê)

It’s a coconut that have dendê

Capoeira has dendê

It’s a coconut that have dendê

The berimbau has dendê

It’s a coconut that have dendê

*Dendê - Its probably safe to assume that 
dende/palms/palm oil were very significant
 in the everyday lives of those early 
capoeiristas, and could be used as an 
analogy for a lot of things. Food cooked 
without oil is maybe lacking in flavor,

not very filling, and probably burnt. 
So maybe capoeira, without proper dende, 
would suffer the same way.