Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Quem a paca cara compra
Paca cara pagará } bis
Oh! Violeiro do mundo
Dêem-me atenção de um segundo
Pra meu lamento profundo
Que hoje decanto o retrato
Um grande vulto do mato
Mato de onde não fujo
Aderaldo Ferreira de Araújo
O Cego Aderaldo do Crato } bis
Ali nasceu o artista
De ferreiro a maquinista
Que mesmo perdendo a vista
Via com o coração
No pontear de um botão
Era jornal de matuto
Analfabeto e inculto
Orgulho desse meu baião } bis
Ao poeta e trovador
Dos repentista, lendário
Da poesia operário
Onde estiver com amor
Do teu admirador
Receba estas rimas vagas
Como uma espécie de "paga" bis
No seu primeiro centenário
Quem a paca cara compra
Paca cara pagará } bis
Translation
He who buys an expensive paca
An expensive paca will pay } bis
Oh! Musician of the world
Give me a second of your attention
For my deep lament
That today I sing the portrait
A great figure of the mato
Mato from where I do not flee
Aderaldo Ferreira de Araújo
O Cego Aderaldo do Crato } bis
There the artist was born
From blacksmith to machinist
Who even losing his sight
Saw with his heart
In the playing of a button
He was a matuto's newspaper
Illiterate and uncultured
Pride of this my baião } bis
To the poet and troubadour
Of the repentista, legendary
Worker of poetry
Wherever you are with love
From your admirer
Receive these vague rhymes
As a kind of "payment" bis
On his first centenary
He who buys an expensive paca
An expensive paca will pay } bis
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