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Alceu Valença

Meu Forró É Meu CantoMy Forró Is My Song

Alceu Valença · Sol e Chuva Sun and Rain (1997)

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Composer: Alceu Valença

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Full lyrics

Meu coração faz dum,dum,dum...

É o zabumba batucando no forró

Meu coração faz dum,dum,dum...

Com muito jeito vai batendo satisfeito

No compasso do meu peito

Fazendo forrobodó

A gente vai vivendo assim no tororó

Levando a vida no balanço do forró

Meu forró é meu canto

Quem canta meu povo os segredos da vida

Quem não amou, quem não viveu

Quem não chorou, quem não sofreu

Quem nessa vida nunca teve o seu xodó

Uma saudade que amargou que nem jiló

Um coraçao que bateu tanto que fez dó

A nossa vida é como se fosse um forró.

Translation

My heart goes dum,dum,dum...

It's the zabumba drumming in the forró

My heart goes dum,dum,dum...

It keeps beating satisfied with great care

In the rhythm of my chest

Making forrobodó

We keep living like this in the tororó

Living life in the sway of the forró

My forró is my song

Who sings for my people the secrets of life

Who hasn't loved, who hasn't lived

Who hasn't cried, who hasn't suffered

Who in this life never had their xodó

A saudade that was bitter like jiló

A heart that beat so much it was pitiful

Our life is as if it were a forró.

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