Composer: Jackson Do Pandeiro
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
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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