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Benício Guimarães

Sertão de Cabra MachoSertão of the Tough Man

Benício Guimarães · Benício Guimarães Benício Guimarães (1980)

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Composer: Benício Guimarães

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Full lyrics

Vai sertão

Sertão de cabra macho

Terra de pedra e riacho

Cachoeira e estradas de chão


Quem é pobre anda a pé

Rico anda de gerico

E sai conformado

Telefone é um moleque pra levar recado

O cantor preferido é o sabiá


É bonito agente vê

Nas quebradas do sertão

O pessoal vem da missa

Parece até procissão

Trazendo alpercata no ombro

Chapéu de couro na mão

Com o rosto empoeirado

Curtindo o Sol de verão

Com os pé a calejado

Se arrastando em um bastão


O calçado domingueiro

É um chinelo de borracha

O sapado preferido

É uma alpercata de rabicho

Quando calça ela dói o dia inteiro

Aquele couro duro é no tornozelo

Chega na recepção cheio de catombo

Bota os pés no chão e alpercata no ombro


Sertão

Sertão


É terra de cangaceiro

Dos cabras de Lampião


Sertão

Translation

Go Sertão

Sertão of tough men

Land of stone and stream

Waterfall and dirt roads


Who is poor walks on foot

The rich ride a donkey

And leave resigned

A telephone is a boy to carry messages

The favorite singer is the sabiá


It's beautiful to see

In the ravines of the Sertão

The people come from mass

It even looks like a procession

Carrying sandals on their shoulder

Leather hat in hand

With their face dusty

Enjoying the summer sun

With their feet calloused

Dragging themselves with a staff


The Sunday footwear

Is a rubber flip-flop

The favorite shoe

Is a sandal with a strap

When you wear it, it hurts all day

That hard leather is on the ankle

Arrives at the reception full of bumps

Puts feet on the ground and sandals on the shoulder


Sertão

Sertão


It's the land of the cangaceiro

Of Lampião's men


Sertão

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