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As Galvão

Tristeza do jecaHick's Sadness

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

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Composer: As Galvão

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Tristeza do Jeca


Nestes versos tão singelos

Minha bela, meu amor

Pra você quero contar

O meu sofrer e a minha dor


Sou igual o sabiá

Quando canta é só tristeza

Verde o galho onde ele está


Nesta viola eu canto

E gemo de verdade

Cada toada representa uma saudade


Eu nasci naquela serra

Num ranchinho beira-chão

Todo cheio de buraco

Onde a luz faz clarão


Quando chega a madrugada

Lá no mato a passarada

Principia o barulhão


Nesta viola e canto

E gemo de verdade

Cada toada representa uma saudade


Lá no mato tudo é triste

Desde o jeito de falar

Pois o jeca quando canta

Dá vontade de chorar


E o choro que vai caindo

Devagar vai se sumindo

Como as águas vão pro mar

Translation

Jeca's Sadness


In these simple verses

My beauty, my love

For you I want to tell

My suffering and my pain


I'm like the thrush

When it sings, it's only sadness

The branch where it sits is green


On this viola I sing

And I truly moan

Each tune represents a longing


I was born on that mountain

In a little shack by the ground

All full of holes

Where the light shines through


When dawn arrives

There in the woods, the birds

Begin the commotion


On this viola I sing

And I truly moan

Each tune represents a longing


There in the woods everything is sad

Even the way of speaking

Because when the jeca sings

It makes you want to cry


And the crying that keeps falling

Slowly fades away

Like the waters go to the sea

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