La tarántula é un bicho mú malo;
No se mata con piera ni palo;
Que juye y se mete por tós los rincones
Y son mú malinas sus picazones.

¡Ay mare!, no zé que tengo
Que ayé pazé por la era
Y ha principiaito a entrarme
Er má de la temblaera.
Zerá q'a mí me ha picáo
La tarántula dañina
Y estoy toitico enfermáo.
Por su sangre tan endina. [bad word] los mengues
Mardita la araña
Que tié en la barriga
Pintá una guitarra!
Bailando se cura tan jondo doló.
¡Ay! ¡Mal haya la araña que a mí me picó!

No le temo á los rayos ni balas
Ni le temo á otra cosa más mala
Que me hizo mi pare;
Más guapo que er gayo
Pero á ese bichito lo parta un rayo.
¡Ay mare! yo estoy malito.
Me está entrando unos sudores
Que me han dejaito seco [bad word] o de picores.
Zerá que á mí me ha picáo
La tarántula dañina,
Por eso me he quedao
Más dergao que una sardina. [bad word] los mengues,
Mardita la araña
Que tié la barriga
Pintá una guitarra!
Bailando se cura tan jondo doló.
¡Ay! ¡Mal haya la araña que a mí me picó!

(traducción al inglés:)
The spider's an evil insect
You can't kill it with sticks or with stones
For [bad word] off and hides in corners
And its sting is wdangerous

Oh mother! I don't know what's wrong with me
But yesterday I went into the threshing barn
And now Ive just begun to get the shakes.
poisinous spider must have stung me
And now I'm really ill.
Their blood is so lousy,
May the devils eat one another up! [bad word] the spider that has a guitar painted on its belly!
Dancing is the only cure for this terrible pain.
Ay! Curse the spider that stung me!

I'm not afraid of ligthning or bullets
or of the still worse things
My father's done to me,
He's as tough as [bad word] but may that lousy insect be stuck by lightning.
Ay mother, I'm really rather ill.
I'm getting into one of those sweats
That dries you up
And gets you all scabby
I must have been stung
By the nasty tarantula
And that's why I'm getting
Thinner than a sardine.
May the devils eat one another!
To [bad word] with the spider
That on it's stomach
Has a painted guitar!
Dancing is the only cure for this terrible pain.
Ay! Curse the spider that stung me!