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Luiz Gonzaga

Calango da LacraiaLacraia's Calango

Luiz Gonzaga · Nasci Cantando I Was Born Singing (2018)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga, Zé Dantas

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Eu vou te contar um caso

Você ri que se escangaia

A mulher do Zé Maria

Foi dançar, caiu a saia


Calangotango

Que o calango da lacraia

Meu cabrito tá na corda

Meu cavalo tá na baia


Minha filha não se casa

Com homem que não trabaia

Trabaiadô quando é bom

Segunda-feira não faia


No lugar que eu jogo bola

Não quero jogo de maia

Também quero ter direito

Você mesmo me atrapaia


Desaforo de mineiro

É chamar nortista de traia

O nortista puxa faca

Mineiro puxa navaia


Se não fosse a carnaúba

Não tinha chapéu de paia

O que eu não atolero

É desaforo de canaia

Translation

I'm going to tell you a story

You'll laugh your head off

Zé Maria's wife

Went dancing, her skirt fell down


Calangotango

Like the lizard of the centipede

My little goat is on the rope

My horse is in the stall


My daughter won't marry

A man who doesn't work

A worker when he's good

Doesn't fail on Monday


In the place where I play ball

I don't want a net game

I also want to have the right

You yourself are hindering me


A miner's disrespect

Is calling a northerner trash

The northerner pulls out a knife

The miner pulls out a razor


If it weren't for the carnauba palm

There would be no straw hat

What I can't stand

Is disrespect from a scoundrel

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