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Jackson do Pandeiro

Forro em CaruaruForró in Caruaru

Jackson do Pandeiro · Sua Majestade o Rei do Ritmo His Majesty the King of Rhythm (2019)

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Composer: Jackson Do Pandeiro

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Full lyrics

No forró de Sá Joaninha em Caruaru

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu


Eu nunca vi, meu cumpade

Forgansa tão boa

Tão cheia de brinquedo e de animação

Bebemo na função, dançamo sem parar

Num galope de matar

Nas alta madrugada

Por causo de uma danada que vêi de Tacaratu

Matemo doi sordado, quato cabo e um sargento

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu


No forró de Sá Joaninha em Caruaru

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu


Meu irmão Gisuíno grudou numa nega

Xamego de um sujeito valente e brigão

Eu vi que a confusão não tardava a começá

Pois um cabra de punhá

Com cara de assassino

Partiu pra Gisuíno e estava feito o sururu

Matemo doi sordado, quato cabo e um sargento

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu


No forró de Sá Joaninha em Caruaru

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu


Ao doutor delegado que é veio, trombudo

Eu disse que naquela grande confusão

Houve apena uns arranhão

Mas os cabra morredô

Nesse tempo de calô tem a carne reimosa

O veio zombou da prosa, eu fugi do Caruaru

Matemo doi sordado, quato cabo e um sargento

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu


No forró de Sá Joaninha em Caruaru

Cumpade Mané Bento, só faltava tu

Translation

At Miss Joaninha's forró in Caruaru

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing


I've never seen, my compadre

Such a good party

So full of fun and liveliness

We drank at the event, we danced non-stop

In a killing gallop

In the deep hours of the morning

Because of a mischievous woman who came from Tacaratu

We killed two soldiers, four corporals, and a sergeant

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing


At Miss Joaninha's forró in Caruaru

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing


My brother Gisuíno got involved with a Black woman

A flirtation of a brave and quarrelsome fellow

I saw that the confusion wouldn't be long in starting

For a guy with a knife

With a killer's face

Went after Gisuíno and the brawl had begun

We killed two soldiers, four corporals, and a sergeant

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing


At Miss Joaninha's forró in Caruaru

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing


To the Chief of Police, who is old and grumpy

I said that in that great confusion

There were only a few scratches

But the dying guys

In this hot weather, their flesh is 'reimosa'

The old man scoffed at the tale, I fled Caruaru

We killed two soldiers, four corporals, and a sergeant

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing


At Miss Joaninha's forró in Caruaru

Compadre Mané Bento, only you were missing

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