Composer: Jackson Do Pandeiro
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Tome jeito, bom sujeito
Senão vai acabar de tanga
O boi quando não sabe ser boi
Apanha do carreiro e ainda lambe a canga
Eu também já fui gamado, de quatro costado
Não acreditava em disse-me-disse
Construí uma casinha muito rica e bela
Para eu e ela gozar na velhice
Veio o vento do destino ou da ambição
Carregou aquilo tudo e eu fiquei na mão
Se eu não dou um pulo certo na hora precisa
Ficava igual cabrito novo numa pedra lisa
Translation
Get your act together, good fellow
Otherwise, you'll end up in a loincloth
The ox that doesn't know how to be an ox
Gets beaten by the driver and still licks the yoke
I too was once smitten, head over heels
Didn't believe in hearsay
I built a very comfortable and beautiful little house
For her and me to enjoy in old age
Came the wind of destiny or ambition
It carried all that away and I was left empty-handed
If I didn't make the right move at the precise moment
I would be like a young goat on a smooth stone
