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Avoante - Ao VivoAvoante - Live

Irah Caldeira · Cantadeira (Ao Vivo) Singer (Live) (2010)

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Composer: Irah Caldeira, Santanna "O Cantador"

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Quando o riacho vira caminho de pedra

E avoante vai embora

Procurar verde no chão

A terra seca fica só e num silêncio

Que mal comparando eu penso

Tá igual meu coração

Que nem a chuva você veio na invernada

Perfumando a minha casa

Alegrando o meu viver

Mas quando o sol bebeu o açude inté secá

Quem poderia imaginar que levaria inté você

Só resisti porque nasci num pé-de-serra

E quem vem da minha terra

Resistência é profissão

E nordestino é "madeira de dá em doido"

Que a vida enverga e não consegue quebrar não

Sobrevivi estou aqui contando contando a história

Com aquela mesma viola que te fez apaixonar

Tua saudade deu um mote delicado

Pra fazer mais serenado

Meu destino de cantar

Translation

When the stream turns into a stone path

And the avoante leaves

To look for green on the ground

The dry land is left alone and in a silence

That, poorly comparing, I think

Is like my heart

Like the rain, you came in the winter season

Perfuming my house

Brightening my life

But when the sun drank the dam until it dried up

Who could imagine it would take even you

I only resisted because I was born in a pé-de-serra

And whoever comes from my land

Resistance is a profession

And nordestino is "wood to beat a madman"

That life bends but cannot break

I survived, I am here telling, telling the story

With that same viola that made you fall in love

Your saudade gave a delicate theme

To make more serene

My destiny of singing

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