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Jackson do Pandeiro

Trabalha ZéWork, Zé!

Jackson do Pandeiro · Mutirão Collective Effort (1976)

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Composer: Jackson Do Pandeiro

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Full lyrics

Trabalha Zé se queres vencer

Quem não trabalha

Nesse mundo não pode viver


Quem com vinte não tem barba

Com trinta não se casou

Com quarenta vive pobre

Passou pela vida e so cochilou

A barba pro homen é respeito

Homem velho e solteiro é piada

Sem trabalho ninguem é feliz

Sem dinheiro ninguem chega a nada

Com dezoito raspei minha barba

E com vinte, feliz me casei

Hoje vivo na paz e amor

Mas pra isso muito trabalhei

Trabalha Zé

Translation

Work, Zé, if you want to win

Whoever doesn't work

Cannot live in this world


Whoever at twenty has no beard

At thirty didn't get married

At forty lives poor

Passed through life and only dozed off

A beard for a man is respect

An old and single man is a joke

Without work nobody is happy

Without money nobody achieves anything

At eighteen I shaved my beard

And at twenty, happily I got married

Today I live in peace and love

But for that I worked a lot

Work, Zé

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