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As Galvão

Cabocla TerezaCabocla Tereza

As Galvão · Nóis e a Viola Us and the Viola (2001)

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Composer: As Galvão

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"Lá no alto da montanha

Numa casa bem estranha

Toda feita de sapê

Parei uma noite o cavalo

Por causa de dois estalos

Que ouvi lá dentro bater

Apeei com muito jeito

Ouvi um gemido perfeito

Uma voz cheia de dor:

"Você, Tereza, descansa

Jurei de fazer vingança

Por causa do meu amor"

Pela fresta da janela

Por uma luzinha amarela

De um lampião quase apagando


Vi uma cabocla no chão

E um cabra tinha na mão

Uma arma alumiando

Virei meu cavalo a galope

Risquei de espora e chicote

Sangrei a anca do tal

Desci a montanha abaixo

E galopando aquele macho

O seu doutor fui chamar

Vortemo lá pra montanha

Naquela casinha estranha


Eu e mais seu doutor

Topei um cabra assustado

Que chamando nóis prum lado

A sua história contou"


Há tempo eu fiz um ranchinho

Pra minha cabocla morar

Pois era ali nosso ninho

Bem longe desse lugar

No alto lá da montanha

Perto da luz do luar

Vivi um ano feliz

Sem nunca isso esperar


E muito tempo passou

Pensando em ser tão feliz

Mas a Tereza, doutor

Felicidade não quis

Pus meu sonho nese olhar

Paguei caro o meu amor

Por causa de outro caboclo

Meu rancho ela abandonou


Senti meu sangue ferver

Jurei a Tereza matar

O meu alazão arriei

E ela fui procurar

Agora já me vinguei

É esse o fim de um amor

Essa cabocla eu matei

É a minha história, doutor

Translation

Up high on the mountain

In a very strange house

All made of thatch

I stopped my horse one night

Because of two cracks

I heard beating inside


I dismounted very carefully

I heard a perfect groan

A voice full of pain:

"You, Tereza, rest

I swore to take revenge

Because of my love"

Through the crack in the window

By a little yellow light

From a lamp almost extinguished


I saw a woman on the floor

And a man had in his hand

A weapon illuminating

I turned my horse to a gallop

I scratched with spur and whip

I bloodied the haunch of that horse

I went down the mountain

And galloping that macho

I went to call your doctor

We returned to the mountain

In that strange little house


Me and your doctor

I met a frightened man

Who calling us to one side

Told his story


A while ago I made a little ranch

For my woman to live

For it was there our nest

Far from this place

Up high on the mountain

Near the light of the moonlight

I lived a happy year

Without ever expecting this


And a lot of time passed

Thinking of being so happy

But Tereza, doctor

Didn't want happiness

I put my dream in that look

I paid dearly for my love

Because of another man

My ranch she abandoned


I felt my blood boil

I swore to kill Tereza

I saddled my chestnut horse

And I went to look for her

Now I have taken revenge

This is the end of a love

This woman I killed

It's my story, doctor

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