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Jacinto Silva

No PinicadoOn the Tiptoes

Jacinto Silva · Cantando Singing (1966)

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Composer: Jacinto Silva

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Sou filho de pé de serra do sertão queimado

Me criei pisando em cobra e vaquejando o gado

Ando sete légua e tanto pra dançar torrado

Danço quatro noite inteira esse pinicado


O meu fraco é caça peba e rastejar tatu

Invocar no marmeleiro, e derrubar zebu

Pescar de rede e tarrafa lá no Pajeú

E dançar um tarrabufado em Caruaru


Sou nortista verdadeiro, sou desconfiado

Bebo, danço, canto côco e não sou assombrado

Pra todo lugar que eu vou levo o punhal de lado

E só dou surra de facão em cabra malcriado

Translation

I am a son of the foothills of the burned backlands

I grew up stepping on snakes and herding cattle

I walk twenty-one leagues and more to dance scorched

I dance four whole nights this 'pinicado'


My weakness is hunting 'peba' and crawling armadillo

Invoking in the marmalade tree, and knocking down zebu

Fishing with net and cast net there in Pajeú

And dancing a 'tarrabufado' in Caruaru


I am a true northerner, I am distrustful

I drink, dance, sing 'coco' and I am not haunted

Everywhere I go I carry the dagger on my side

And I only whip with a machete ill-mannered kids

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