La Fundadora

Don't bother her, leave her alone, leave her alone
Let her come alone
She is a cowgirl from the pastures
And has great saltiness
She knows her feeding place, I call her with the canoe
And she eats salt from my hand

The neighbor from Alto Carrao says she's all horn
The whole tail, even the tip has mentioned
And now you, old Melecio, have advised me
To sell her with that lot of my cattle

That you and the crew have set aside
But you know I'm a plainsman at heart
And you also know I don't sell my condition
So then, old Melecio, pay attention
So you can listen with a good ear to my explanation

Don't bother her, leave her alone because she is
The root of my foundation and it was her milk and her dung
Boiled the cure, the one that saved me from the bordón
From that measles fever when my child
Got it

Back in the days when in my land there was no doctor
To free us from those regional diseases
And our cure was the herb and faith in God
Oh dark cow, you have no value to me

And the last one that you took so many times
Was not my friend, my founder who gave it to you
So then, old Melecio, I prefer
That in your favorite places she keeps chewing from sunrise to sunset
Until they say that the savannah swallowed her