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Ary Lobo

Saudade De CaicóMissing Caicó

Ary Lobo · Forró Em Calcaia Forró in Calcaia (1964)

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Composer: Ary Lobo

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Não sei se foi minha sorte

Não sei se foi catimbó

Que tentou me separar

Do meu rico caicó


Estou perdido aqui no rio

Sem pai, sem mãe, sem irmão

Sem carinho da mulher

Sem meus filhos pra dar benção

Isso para um sertanejo

Não é brincadeira não


So ouço falar em guerra

É greve todos os dias

É filho brigando com pai

É mãe brigando com a filha

Eu morri e não me acostumo

Com tamanha anarquia


O que vi na Guanabara

Que me fez admirar

Foi o cristo redentor

Pão de açúcar e Paquetá

E as mulheres de maiô

Se banhando a beira mar


Por isso eu quero voltar

Pro meu amado sertão

Vou plantar feijão e fava

Macaxeira e algodão

Eu juro que nunca mais

Abandono o meu sertão

Translation

I don't know if it was my luck

I don't know if it was witchcraft

That tried to separate me

From my rich caicó


I am lost here in the river

Without father, without mother, without brother

Without the affection of a woman

Without my children to give a blessing

This for a sertanejo (person from the sertão)

Is no joke


I only hear talk of war

There is a strike every day

It's son fighting with father

It's mother fighting with daughter

I died and I don't get used to it

With such anarchy


What I saw in Guanabara

That made me admire

Was Christ the Redeemer

Sugarloaf Mountain and Paquetá Island

And the women in swimsuits

Bathing by the sea


That's why I want to go back

To my beloved sertão

I will plant beans and fava beans

Manioc and cotton

I swear I will never again

Abandon my sertão

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