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Luiz Gonzaga

Corrida de Mourão (Canção de Vaquejada)Fence Post Race (Vaquejada Song)

Luiz Gonzaga · Gonzagão & Fagner Gonzagão & Fagner (1991)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga, Fagner

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Meu sertão tem futebol,

tem samba tem farinhada

Leilão, reizado e Novena

Mai nada disso me agrada

Meu Fraco é Cavalo e Gado

Cantoria e Vaquejada!

Pra mim o maor Cinema

é quando eu vou chegando

No curral que vejo a pista

e ouço o gado berrado

Os Vaqueiros numerados

e a difusora bradando

De toda parte chegando

Rural, gipe e caminhão

Muita moça namorando

e o gado na exposição

Vaqueiro soltando aboio

de doer no coração

Eu sou ligeiro na pista

e no meio do carrasco

quem tiver boi mandingueiro

solte que eu desenrasco

dou queda que ele conta

as estrelas com o casco

outro diz o meu cavalo

é forte é gordo e zelado

Como feijão, milho e ovos

e todo dia é banhado

Mas só passa perna nele

caba que derruba gado

dois camaradas de fama

que um no outro acredita

vão os dois emparelhados

é mesmo pra fazer fita

quem pega passa pro outro

pra queda ser mais bonita

enxe as nuvens de poeira

e os vaqueiros bebendo

gado bolando no chão

se levantando e correndo

em cada salva de palma

a pista fica tremendo

Adeus quem fez vaquejada

Adeus quem vestiu gibão

Translation

My sertão has football,

has samba, has farinhada

Auction, reizado and Novena

But none of that pleases me

My weakness is Horses and Cattle

Singing and Vaquejada!

For me the greatest Cinema

is when I arrive

At the corral where I see the track

and hear the cattle bellowing

The numbered Vaqueiros

and the loudspeaker blaring

Arriving from everywhere

Rural, jeep and truck

Many girls flirting

and the cattle on display

Vaqueiro letting out an aboio

that hurts the heart

I am quick on the track

and in the middle of the scrubland

whoever has a tricky ox

let it go and I'll untangle it

I give a fall that makes it count

the stars with its hoof

another says my horse

is strong, fat and well-cared for

It eats beans, corn and eggs

and every day it is bathed

But only someone can trip it

a guy who takes down cattle

two famous comrades

who believe in each other

they both go side by side

it's really to put on a show

whoever catches passes to the other

for the fall to be more beautiful

fills the clouds with dust

and the Vaqueiros drinking

cattle rolling on the ground

getting up and running

with every round of applause

the track trembles

Farewell to those who made vaquejada

Farewell to those who wore gibão

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