Composer: Edson Duarte
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
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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