A little known fact about Mamonas Assassinas (Killer Castor Beans, already featured on this blog on Turn Turn and Naked in Santos ) was their philanthropic work, especially geared towards educating the young generations in topics like sexual education, foreign languages and gender studies. In this poem they explain in a really simplified way the rich world fauna and its reproduction mechanisms. Its adoption by the ministry of education in the official Brazilian curriculum helped a whole generation to learn faster and improve their lives. Eating armadillos is good. Too bad it hurts my back. Because the animal is too short And that's why I prefer the goats The goat has breasts That feed their descendants In the animal world there is lots of fornication For example, dogs Who fucks her own mother, her sister and her aunts They get stuck at four loving each other In broad daylight [chorus] The animals, have some interesting animals Just imagine what
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