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Edson Duarte

Tem BananalThere's a Banana Plantation

Edson Duarte · A Feira de São Cristovão The São Cristovão Fair (1979)

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Composer: Edson Duarte

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Full lyrics

Tem bananeira

Tem bananal

Em Capibaribe

Cana de canavial


Tem pernambucano que também é bom vaqueiro

O seu cavalo ligeiro que faz poeirar

Enfrenta touro brabo no espinhal da casa grande

E a poeira se levanta e faz o touro rastejar


Tem menina moça que é filha de fazendeiro

Se apaixona por vaqueiro e não quer mais ninguém

Deixa de casar com doutor e engenheiro

E se casa com vaqueiro que é que lhe convém


Olha o meu campo de cana-cana-caiana

Olha a saia da Joana no meio do salão

Fazendo roda pra rapaziada

Abra a roda camarada pra cantar esse refrão

Translation

There's a banana tree

There's a banana grove

In Capibaribe

Sugarcane from the field


There's a Pernambuco native who's also a good cowboy

His swift horse that makes dust fly

He faces fierce bulls in the great house's thorns

And the dust rises and makes the bull crawl


There's a young girl who's the daughter of a rancher

She falls in love with a cowboy and wants no one else

She stops marrying a doctor and engineer

And marries the cowboy, which is what suits her


Look at my field of sugarcane

Look at Joana's skirt in the middle of the hall

Making a circle for the young people

Open the circle, comrade, to sing this refrain

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