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Erva Rasteira / FestaCreeping Grass / Party

Falamansa · As Sanfonas do Rei: Tributo aos 100 anos de Luiz Gonzaga The Accordions of the King: Tribute to 100 years of Luiz Gonzaga (2012)

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Composer: Falamansa, Jorge Du Peixe, Gustavo Da Lua

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Erva rasteira, erva rasteira

Erva rasteira, erva rasteira


Erva rasteira nasceu prá ser pisada

Nasce, cresce, morre bem embaixo

Mas o homem que é homem de valor

Jamais se propõe a ser capacho


É covarde aquele que, caído

Não tenta jamais se levantar

Sente-se a tantos pés e ferido

Em lamentos se deixa acomodar


Se um dia ele tenta abrir a boca

Se vê sem direito de falar

Seu destino é viver bem rente ao chão

Até que ele venha lhe tragar


Erva rasteira, erva rasteira

Erva rasteira, erva rasteira


Erva rasteira é que pode ser pisada

Mas descuide e ela paga com espinho

O homem que é homem de valor

Se levanta e conquista seu caminho


Erva rasteira, erva rasteira

Erva rasteira, erva rasteira


Erva rasteira é que pode ser pisada

Mas descuide e ela paga com espinho

O homem que é homem de valor

Se levanta e conquista seu caminho


Erva rasteira, erva rasteira

Erva rasteira, erva rasteira


Sol vermelho é bonito de se ver

Lua nova no alto, que beleza

Céu de azul bem limpinho é a natureza

Em visão que tem muito de prazer


Mas o lindo pra mim é céu cinzento

Com clarão entoando seu refrão

Prenúncio que vem trazendo alento

Da chegada das chuvas no sertão


Ver a terra rachada amolecendo

A terra, antes pobre, enriquecendo

O milho pro céu apontando

O feijão pelo chão enramando


E depois ter a safra, que alegria

Ver o povo todinho num vulcão

A negada caindo na folia

Esquecendo das mágoas sem umbu


Belo é o recife pegando fogo

Na pisada do maracatu

Belo é o recife pegando fogo

Na pisada do maracatu

Translation

Low-lying grass, low-lying grass

Low-lying grass, low-lying grass


Low-lying grass was born to be trampled

It's born, grows, dies way down low

But a man who is a man of worth

Would never offer himself to be a doormat


Cowardly is he who, fallen

Never tries to get up

Feels himself under so many feet and wounded

Lets himself settle into lamentations


If one day he tries to open his mouth

He sees himself without the right to speak

His destiny is to live close to the ground

Until it comes to swallow him


Low-lying grass, low-lying grass

Low-lying grass, low-lying grass


Low-lying grass is the one that can be trampled

But be careless and it pays you back with a thorn

The man who is a man of worth

Gets up and conquers his path


Low-lying grass, low-lying grass

Low-lying grass, low-lying grass


Low-lying grass is the one that can be trampled

But be careless and it pays you back with a thorn

The man who is a man of worth

Gets up and conquers his path


Low-lying grass, low-lying grass

Low-lying grass, low-lying grass


Red sun is beautiful to see

New moon up high, what beauty

Clear blue sky is nature

In a vision that has much pleasure


But what's beautiful to me is a gray sky

With a gleam intoning its refrain

A harbinger that comes bringing relief

Of the arrival of the rains in the backlands


Seeing the cracked earth softening

The earth, once poor, becoming rich

The corn pointing to the sky

The beans spreading on the ground


And then having the harvest, what joy

Seeing all the people in a volcano

The black folks falling into revelry

Forgetting the sorrows without umbu fruit


Beautiful is Recife catching fire

In the stomp of the maracatu

Beautiful is Recife catching fire

In the stomp of the maracatu

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