Composer: Amelinha
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Aqui o chão é duro de pisar
Que vem da queimada do betume
Em vez do roxo de areão
Pra riba num céu de pretume
Revoada nem é de coleiro
Mas dum bicho tonto avião
Ahá
Banzo meu beijú
Banzo meu aluá
Banzo da manhã de lá
Ahá
Casa na corcunda de mais casa
Numa rinha pra arranhar o céu
Formigueiro de adôbe
Só inverno, nunca verão
Engraçada falação
Num idioma babel
Banzo meu beijú
Banzo meu aluá
Banzo da manhã de lá
Ahá
Faço idéia a lonjura de lá
O dia chegando sem alvará
Pro mato miúdo de quebra-luz
Prum rio doce de mel nas beiradas
Prum vento que canta só pra ninar
Ahá
Banzo meu beijú
Banzo meu aluá
Banzo da manhã de lá
Ahá
Enquanto as gentes daqui
São farpadas no mourão
E tem marcação no couro
As de lá tem na orelha
É brincos de banana ouro
Banzo meu beijú
Banzo meu aluá
Banzo da manhã de lá
Ahá
Translation
Here the ground is hard to tread
Coming from the burning of bitumen
Instead of the purple of sandy soil
Upwards in a sky of blackness
The flock isn't even of collared warblers
But of a dazed airplane
Ahá
Longing, my beijú
Longing, my aluá
Longing for the morning there
Ahá
A house on the hump of more houses
In a fight to scratch the sky
Anthill of adobe
Only winter, never summer
Funny chatter
In a Babel language
Longing, my beijú
Longing, my aluá
Longing for the morning there
Ahá
I imagine the distance of there
The day arriving without permission
For the small scrub of light-breaker
For a sweet river of honey on the edges
For a wind that sings only to lull
Ahá
Longing, my beijú
Longing, my aluá
Longing for the morning there
Ahá
While the people here
Are barbed on the fence post
And have markings on their hide
Those there have it on their ears
It's earrings of golden banana
Longing, my beijú
Longing, my aluá
Longing for the morning there
Ahá
