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As Galvão

Ex-PrisioneiraEx-Prisoner (Female)

As Galvão · Faz o Povo Balançar Make the People Dance (2008)

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Composer: As Galvão, Moacyr Franco

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Cumpriu a pena

Uma dezena de anos perdido, uma bobagem

Saindo agora

Estão lá fora a sua espera, fome e chantagem


Nenhum parente

Estão ausente a mãe e o filho que não conhece

Sem endereço, um recomeço

Que ninguém sonha mas acontece


Ela queria voar como andorinha

Alcançar o seu destino que fugia

Esquecer o que a pátria prometia

Vida de pobre, de loteria


Voa, voa sonha alto, ave ferida

Voa atrás daquela sorte prometida

Vai buscar pra sua gente tão sofrida

O que precisa, pão e justiça


Vender o corpo no cais do porto

Por uns centavos, pela comida

Matar a fome, comprar um nome

Um telefone, uma saída


Vida rasteira de brasileira

Ex-prisioneira sem pedigree

Contar com a sorte, pedra e bodoque

Vencer a morte, não desistir

Translation

He served his time

A decade of years lost, a foolish thing

Getting out now

They're out there waiting for him, hunger and blackmail


No relatives

His mother and the son he doesn't know are absent

No address, a new beginning

That no one dreams of but it happens


She wanted to fly like a swallow

Reach her destiny that was escaping

Forget what the homeland promised

A poor life, like a lottery


Fly, fly dream high, wounded bird

Fly after that promised luck

Go get for your suffering people

What they need, bread and justice


Selling her body on the docks

For a few cents, for food

Kill the hunger, buy a name

A telephone, a way out


A low life of a Brazilian woman

Ex-prisoner without pedigree

Count on luck, stone and slingshot

Defeat death, don't give up

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