Sim Sim Sim, Não Não Não
Traditional Capoeira Song

This is an old, simple, traditional Capoeira song that everyone in the Capoeira world would know. It's so simple that every student/beginner in Capoeira would sing this song during their first class or instruction of Capoeira. As with many things in Capoeira, its simplicity however, can be very deceiving as this particular song brings in its essence one of the greatest truth about the variation and the unpredictability of life: what you have today, you may lose it the very next day -  be it material things (worldly posession - theft, fire, losing things etc., or physical being - sick, death etc.) or even ethereal thing (soul - death etc.).

Sim Sim Sim, Não Não Não	Yes Yes Yes, No No No
Oi Sim Sim Sim Oi Não Não Não	Oh Yes Yes Yes Oh No No No
Oi Sim Sim Sim Oi Não Não Não	Oh Yes Yes Yes Oh No No No
Mas hoje tem amanhã não Mas hoje tem amanhã não	But today there is, tomorrow there isn't But today there is, tomorrow there isn't
Oi Sim Sim Sim Oi Não Não Não	Oh Yes Yes Yes Oh No No No
Olha a pisada de lampião Olha a pisada de lampião	Look at the footprints of Lampião* Look at the footprints of Lampião*
Oi Sim Sim Sim Oi Não Não Não	Oh Yes Yes Yes Oh No No No

*Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (better known as Lampião) was the most famous bandit leader of the Cangaço whose exploit turned him into a folk hero (think Jesse James)in the early twentieth century – like the Robin Hood of the northeast of Brazil. Cangaço was a form of banditry endemic to the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s and 1930s.He and his band of followers were pursued by the police, and it is said that in order to throw them off the trail, he used to wear his shoes turned around with the toes pointing backwards – thus leaving tracks going in the wrong direction. This is why the song mentions Lampião’s footprints. the idea of “reversal” and trickiness is very common in capoeira!