Pen Pen de Sarapen
SSAA a cappella
4:00 approx.
An arrangement of the popular folk song from the Tagalog Region of the Philippines. Pen Pen de Sarapen is a nonsense rhyme for choosing who’s “It” or tayá, similar to eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
PEN PEN DE SARAPEN
Trad. Philippine Folk
Pen pen de sarapen,
de kutsilyo de almasen
Haw, haw de karabaw
Batutin.
Sipit namimilipit, ginto’t pilak
Namumulaklak sa tabi ng dagat.
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Pen, pen from Sarapen,
Knife from department store
How, how the carabao (water buffalo)
Stinks!
Pinching tongs, gold and silver
Blooming near the sea.