Composer: Jackson Do Pandeiro
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Choveu, choveu
Choveu demais no sertão
Não sei por pior agora
Se é inverno ou verão
Choveu tanto lá na serra
Na mata, no boqueirão
Repentando pau e pedra
Acabou-se a plantação
Valei-me nossa senhora
O meu rancho foi-se embora
Só tem o sinal no chão
Choveu, choveu
Choveu demais no sertão
Não sei por pior agora
Se é inverno ou verão
Levou o algodoeiro
Levou o canavial
Levou um boi do carreiro
Um vaqueiro aninal
Fazenda de quem foi rico
Só ficou um pé de angico
Que era o murão do curral
Translation
It rained, it rained
It rained too much in the backlands
I don't know what's worse now
If it's winter or summer
It rained so much there in the mountains
In the forest, in the gorge
Sweeping away wood and stone
The plantation was destroyed
Help me, Our Lady
My shack was carried away
Only its mark remains on the ground
It rained, it rained
It rained too much in the backlands
I don't know what's worse now
If it's winter or summer
It took the cotton field
It took the sugarcane field
It took an ox from the path
A cowboy, an animal
The farm of someone who was rich
Only an angico tree remained
Which was the wall of the corral
