Once upon a time there was a cow In the Humahuaca Gorge As it was very old, very old She was deaf in one ear And even though she was already a grandmother One day she wanted to go to school She put on red shoes Tulle gloves and a pair of glasses The teacher saw her, frightened And said: "You're wrong". And the cow replied "Why can't I study?" The cow dressed in white She sat on the first bench We kids were throwing chalk And we were laughing our heads off People went away very curious To see the studious cow People arrived in trucks On bicycles and in airplanes And as the row grew louder and louder At school, no one was studying The cow standing in a corner Ruminating alone the lesson One day all of us kids We became donkeys And in that place in Humahuaca The only wise one was the cow And in that place in Humahuaca The only wise woman was the cow. (María Elena Walsh) Children's song