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Jackson do Pandeiro

Dona TotonhaDona Totonha

Jackson do Pandeiro · Mutirão Collective Effort (1976)

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Composer: Jackson Do Pandeiro

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Full lyrics

Chamei a Dona Totonha

Pra dançar um rancheira

No engenho de casa nova

É na casa de Zé Cachoeira


As moças todas enfeitadas

Nascida um lenço ticheiro

Perfume de brilhantina

No rosto o rubro vermelho


E as moças diziam

Não queremos dançar rancheira

Mas Totonha queria

Rancheira sempre a noite inteira

Translation

I called Dona Totonha

To dance a rancheira

At the new house's sugar mill

It's at Zé Cachoeira's house


All the girls adorned

Wearing a decorative scarf

Perfume of brilliantine

On their faces, the crimson red


And the girls said

We don't want to dance rancheira

But Totonha wanted to

Rancheira always the whole night

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