Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Eita! Sertão do Nordeste
Terra de cabra da peste
Só sertanejo arrizéste
Ano de seca e verão
Toda dureza do chão
Faz também duro
O homem que vive no sertão
Tem cangaceiro
Mas tem romeiro
Gente ruim, gente boa
Cabra bom, cabra à toa
Valentão, sem controle
Só não dá cabra mole
Tem cangaceiro
Mas tem romeiro
Lá o caboclo mais fraco, é vaqueiro
Eita! Sertão!Eita! Nordeste!
Eita Sertão!
Ei, rê, rê, rê, rê, tá!
Cabra da peste
Translation
Wow! Northeastern outback
Land of tough guys
Only hardened country folk
Year of drought and summer
All the harshness of the ground
Also makes hard
The man who lives in the outback
There are bandits
But there are pilgrims
Bad people, good people
Good guys, useless guys
Brave, out of control
Just no wimps
There are bandits
But there are pilgrims
There the weakest backwoodsman is a cowboy
Wow! Outback! Wow! Northeast!
Wow! Outback!
Hey, rê, rê, rê, rê, tá!
Tough guy
