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Cristina Amaral

Chico das ÁguasChico of the Waters

Cristina Amaral · Balanço Brasileiro Brazilian Swing (2006)

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Composer: Cristina Amaral

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Velho Chico

No fuxico de tuas águas

As minhas mágoas se afogaram em teu correr

Na canoa em que eu faço a viagem

No silêncio da paisagem vejo tudo florescer


Eu te pergunto quantas lágrimas matutas

Se derramaram pra que fosses lindo assim

Desde a canastra até a última morada

Em que te entregas ao mar um amor sem fim


Junto ao teu leito ora largo ora estreito

Tuas águas pintam de verde o sertão

Dando festa na vida do sertanejo

Olho pra ti e vejo tens alma e coração


Oh, velho Chico quantas sedes saciadas

Por tantas bocas que viveram a te beber

Chico das águas, Chico amigo, São Francisco

Vem de alegria minha vida abastecer


Vem dar água de beber

Matar a sede da gente

Vem transformar a semente

Em fruto bom de se comer


Junto ao teu leito ora largo ora estreito...

Translation

Velho Chico

In the murmur of your waters

My sorrows drowned in your flow

In the canoe where I make the journey

In the silence of the landscape I see everything bloom


I ask you how many rustic tears

Were shed so that you would be so beautiful

From the Canastra to the last dwelling

Where you surrender to the sea an endless love


Beside your bed, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow

Your waters paint the sertão green

Bringing joy to the life of the sertanejo

I look at you and see you have a soul and a heart


Oh, Velho Chico, how many thirsts quenched

By so many mouths that lived drinking from you

Chico das águas, Chico amigo, São Francisco

Come fill my life with joy


Come give water to drink

Quench our thirst

Come transform the seed

Into good fruit to eat


Beside your bed, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow...

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