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Luiz Gonzaga

Acordo Às QuatroI Wake Up at Four

Luiz Gonzaga · Luiz Gonzaga "Eu E Meu Pai" Luiz Gonzaga "Me and My Father" (1979)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga

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Full lyrics

Acordo às quatro

Tomo meu café

Dou um beijo na muié

E nas crianças também

Vou pro trabáio

Com céu ainda escuro

Respirando esse ar puro

Que só minha terra tem


Levo comigo

Minha foice e a enxada

Vou seguindo pela estrada

Vou pro campo trabaiá

Vou ouvindo

O cantar dos passarinhos

Vou andando, vou sozinho

Tenho Deus pra me ajudar


Tenho as miúças

Carneiro, porco e galinha

Tenho inté uma vaquinha

Que a muié véve a cuidar

E os menino

Digo sempre a Iracema

Em Santana de Ipanema

Todos os três vai estudar


Pois eu não quero

Fío meu analfabeto

Quero no caminho certo

Da cartilha do abc


Eu mesmo

Nunca tive essa sorte

Mas eu luto inté a morte} bis

Móde eles aprender

Translation

I wake up at four

I drink my coffee

I give a kiss to my woman

And to the children too

I go to work

With the sky still dark

Breathing this pure air

That only my land has


I take with me

My scythe and the hoe

I go following the road

I go to the field to work

I go listening

To the singing of the little birds

I go walking, I go alone

I have God to help me


I have the small livestock

Sheep, pig and chicken

I even have a little cow

That the woman lives caring for

And the boys

I always tell Iracema

In Santana de Ipanema

All three will study


For I do not want

My child illiterate

I want on the right path

Of the ABC primer


I myself

Never had that luck

But I fight until death} bis

So that they learn

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