Composer: Assisão
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Rasga essa sanfona sanfoneiro
Da-lhe no zabumba zabumbeiro
Vejo o triangulo trilingar
Quero vê subir fandango
No tilinto violar
Rasga o couro da canela
Quando solto do chinelo
Tira fogo do terreiro
Quero vê o surdo e o pandeiro
Junto com a rapaziada animando a brincadeira
Quero vê o meu sertão
Balão subindo
E o fole gemendo
É o couro comendo
O forro rodando
E o povo dizendo
Translation
Tear up that sanfona, sanfoneiro
Hit the zabumba hard, zabumbeiro
I see the triangulo jingling
I want to see the fandango rise up
With the viola's jingle playing
Tear up the skin of the shins
When I'm loose from my chinelo
Make fire from the terreiro
I want to see the surdo and the pandeiro
Together with the young crowd enlivening the fun
I want to see my sertão
Sky lanterns rising
And the fole groaning
The party is getting wild
The forró spinning
And the people saying
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