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Benício Guimarães

Estradas do SertãoRoads of the Sertão

Benício Guimarães · O Novo Imperador The New Emperor (2003)

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Composer: Benício Guimarães

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Andei, andei, andei

Nas estradas do sertão

Eu subi poeira

Pica-pau tirando a casca da madeira

Nas quebradas do sertão

A chuva passou por longe

Parou a vegetação

Faltou água no riacho

Secou a minaçao

Coitado passando sede e a cocheira sem ração

Só resta acauã cantando

O canto de adoração


Ôôô sertão

Ôôô sertão

A lama virou cascalho

O mandacaru secou

Pau pereira caiu a folha

Arribação se mudou

A estrada empoeira

Só se vê chifres roçadas

Fazendas essa abandonadas

Em triste lamentações

O cavalo relinchando

E o vaqueiro chorando

Só resta acauã cantando

O canto de adoração


Ôôô sertão

Ôôô sertão

Como o fogo brasei o servo

Como a cinza adoração

Feito um braseiro queimando

O sol braseira o sertão

Só resta acauã cantando

O canto de adoração

Translation

I walked, I walked, I walked

On the roads of the backlands

I kicked up dust

Woodpecker stripping bark from wood

In the ravines of the backlands

The rain passed far away

The vegetation stopped growing

Water was missing in the stream

The spring dried up

Poor creature suffering thirst and the stable without feed

Only the acauã remains singing

The song of adoration


Oh, sertão

Oh, sertão

The mud turned to gravel

The mandacaru dried up

Pau pereira lost its leaves

Migratory birds moved on

The road is dusty

Only grazed horns are seen

These abandoned farms

In sad lamentations

The horse neighing

And the cowboy crying

Only the acauã remains singing

The song of adoration


Oh, sertão

Oh, sertão

Like fire, I seared the being

Like ash, adoration

Like a burning brazier

The sun scorches the sertão

Only the acauã remains singing

The song of adoration

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