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Luiz Gonzaga

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Luiz Gonzaga · 60 Grandes Sucessos (Remastered) 60 Great Hits (Remastered) (2019)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga, Humberto Teixeira

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No meu tempo

Ninguém fazia fé

Café!

Hoje em dia

Não chega pra quem qué

Café!


Antigamente

O café num dava preço

Isso era no começo

No Brasil do Imperador

Mas hoje em dia

Tá na moeda, é nosso fraco

Inté mesmo o puxa-saco

Hoje é puxa cuadô

Vejam vocês

Quase todo mundo diz

Que o Brasil só é feliz

Se café tive valor


No meu tempo

Ninguém fazia fé

Café!

Hoje em dia

Não chega pra quem qué

Café!


Na minha terra

Café fraco é chafé

Muito fraco é águafé

Café ruim

Não tem patente


Marca três efe

Fraco, frio, ferventado

Quem toma desse danado

Pode até fica doente


Eu pago caro

Me censure quem quisé

Mas café como muié

Só vai doce, forte e quente

Translation

In my time

Nobody had faith

Coffee!

Nowadays

There's not enough for those who want it

Coffee!


In the old days

Coffee wasn't worth much

That was in the beginning

In the Brazil of the Emperor

But nowadays

It's in the currency, it's our weakness

Even the sycophant

Today is a filter-puller

Look at you

Almost everyone says

That Brazil is only happy

If coffee has value


In my time

Nobody had faith

Coffee!

Nowadays

There's not enough for those who want it

Coffee!


In my land

Weak coffee is 'chafé'

Very weak is 'águafé'

Bad coffee

Has no patent


Brand three F's

Weak, cold, over-boiled

Whoever drinks this damned stuff

May even get sick


I pay dearly

Let whoever wants to censure me

But coffee like a woman

Only goes down sweet, strong, and hot

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