Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Na prata da Paraíba
O forró começa cedo
E o miolo do foguedo
É de nove pras dez
Lá nesse dia
Brinca toda a vizinhaça
Todo mundo se balança } bis
Todo mundo arrasta os pés
Martim Pelado
Tem Zico, tem Zé Durão
Com seu fole na mão
Tocando uma gemedeira
Mordendo a língua
Fungando, gineteando
E o forró vai se esquentando
Que só boca de caeira
Vicente Amaro
Quando tá atordoado
Num dá pato pra remoso
Nem peru pra carregado
Se o caboclo corta certo
Com nossa rapaziada
Não se mede distância
Quando o cabra é camarada
De meia-noite
Pras quatro da madrugada
A turma toda ta sambada
De dançar a noite inteira
Quando é de manhãzinha
Que o forró tá terminando
Tem caboclo cochilando
Que só gato na biqueira
Translation
In the silver of Paraíba
The forró starts early
And the core of the celebration
Is from nine to ten
There on that day
All the neighborhood plays
Everyone sways } bis
Everyone drags their feet
Martim Pelado
There's Zico, there's Zé Durão
With his fole in hand
Playing a wailing tune
Biting his tongue
Sniffing, prancing
And the forró is heating up
Like only a lime kiln's mouth
Vicente Amaro
When he's dazed
He doesn't give duck to the remoso
Nor turkey to the burdened
If the caboclo cuts right
With our crew
Distance is not measured
When the guy is a comrade
From midnight
To four in the morning
The whole group is danced out
From dancing all night long
When it's early morning
That the forró is ending
There are caboclos dozing off
Like only a cat on the gutter
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