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Asa Branca/A Volta Da Asa BrancaWhite-Winged Dove/The Return Of The White-Winged Dove

Carmélia Alves · Espetáculo Das Seis E Meia The Six Thirty Show (2005)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga

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Quando oiei a terra ardendo

Qual a fogueira de São João

Eu preguntei a Deus do céu,ai

Por que tamanha judiação


Que braseiro, que fornaia

Nem um pé de prantação

Por farta d'água perdi meu gado

Morreu de sede meu alazão


Inté mesmo a asa branca

Bateu asas do sertão

"Intonce" eu disse adeus Rosinha

Guarda contigo meu coração


Hoje longe muitas légua

Numa triste solidão

Espero a chuva cair de novo

Pra mim vortar pro meu sertão


Quando o verde dos teus óio

Se espanhar na prantação

Eu te asseguro não chore não, viu

Que eu vortarei, viu

Meu coração

Translation

When I saw the land burning

Like the bonfire of São João

I asked God in heaven, oh

Why such great torment


What a blaze, what a furnace

Not a single plant

For lack of water I lost my cattle

My sorrel horse died of thirst


Even the white-winged dove

Flew away from the sertão

Then I said goodbye Rosinha

Keep my heart with you


Today far many leagues away

In a sad solitude

I hope the rain falls again

For me to return to my sertão


When the green of your eyes

Spreads across the crops

I assure you don't cry, you see

That I will return, you see

My heart

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