No tempo em que as estradas
Eram poucas no sertão
Tangerinos e boiadas
Cruzavam a região
Entre volante e cangaço
Quando a lei
Era a do braço
Do jagunço pau-mandado
Do coroné invasô
Dava-se no interiô
Esse caso inusitado

Quando o Palmeira das Antas
Pertencia ao capitão
Justino Bento da Cruz
Nunca faltô diversão
Vaquejada, canturia
Procissão e romaria
sexta-feira da paxão

Na quinta-feira maió
Dona Maria das Dores
No salão paroquial
Reuniu os moradores
Depois de uma preleção
Ao lado do capitão
Escalava a seleção
De atrizes e atores

Todo ano era um Jesus
Um Caifaz e um Pilatos
Só não mudavam a cruz
O verdugo e os maltratos

O Cristo daquele ano
Foi o Quincas Beija-flor
Caifaz foi Cipriano
Pilatos foi Nicanô

Duas cordas paralelas
Separavam a multidão
Pra que pudesse entre elas
Caminhar a procissão

Quincas conduzindo a cruz
Foi num foi adivirtia
O Cinturião perverso
Que com força lhe batia

Era pra bater maneiro
Bastião num intidia
Divido um grande pifão
Que tomou naquele dia
D'um vinho que o capelão
Guardava na sacristia

Cristo dizia:
- Ô rapais, vê se bate divagar
Já to todo incalombado
Assim num vô agüentar
Tá cá gota pra duer
Ou tu pára de bater
Ou a gente vai brigar
Jogo já essa cruis fora
Tô ficando aperriado
Vô morrê antes da hora
De ficar crucificado

O pior é que o malvado
Fingia que num ouvia
E além de bater com força
Ainda se divirtia
Espiava pra Jesus
Fazia pôco e dizia:
- Que Cristo frôxo é você?!
Que chora na procissão
Jesus, pelo que se sabe
Num era mole assim não
Eu to batendo com pena
Tu vai vê o que é bom
Na subida da ladeira
Da venda de Fenelom
O côro vai ser dobrado
Até chegar no mercado
A cuíca muda o tom

Naquele momento ouviu-se
Um grito na multidão
Era Quincas
Que com raiva
Sacudiu a cruz no chão
E partiu feito um maluco
Pra cima de Bastião
Se travaram no tabefe
Pontapé e cabeçada
Madalena levou queda
Pilatos levou pancada
Deram um cacete em Caifaz
Que até hoje num faz
Nem sente gosto de nada

Dismancharam a procissão
O cacete foi pesado
São Tumé levou um tranco
Que ficou desacordado
Acertaram um cocorote
Na careca de Timote
Que inté hoje é aluado

Inté mesmo São José
Que num é de confusão
Na ânsia de defender
Seu filho de criação
Aproveitou a garapa
Pra dar um monte de tapa
Na cara do bom ladrão

A briga só terminou
Quando o dotô delegado
Interviu e separô
Cada santo pro seu lado

Desde que o mundo se fez
Foi essa a primêra vez
Que Jesus foi pro xadrês
Mas num foi crucificado


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