Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Lampião, Lampião
Foi cabra valente
Era de enganchar
Do princípio ao fim
Vou mostrar que Lampião
Não era tão valente assim
Lampião era valente
Valente como ele só
Mas levou uma carreira
Dois cabras de Mossoró
O pique tão danado
Que lascou o mocotó
Lampião quando pegava
Macaco, não tinha dó
Quando o cabra trastejava
Ele dava no gogó
Porém Maria Bonita
O enrolava no cocó
Lampião de Vila Bela
Baixa Verde e Pajeú
Nunca se esqueceu da velha
Serra de Tacaratu
Nunca foi contar farofa
Pras bandas de Novo Exu
Lampião tava dançando
Xaxado em Nazaré
Quando chegou Mane Neto
Cabroeira deu no pé
Se esconderam no serrote
Em Bom Nome, São José
Translation
Lampião, Lampião
He was a brave outlaw
He was one to engage
From beginning to end
I will show that Lampião
Was not so brave after all
Lampião was brave
Brave like no other
But he was chased
By two men from Mossoró
The pace so furious
That it broke his leg
When Lampião caught
A monkey, he had no pity
When a man misbehaved
He would hit him in the throat
But Maria Bonita
Would wrap him around her finger
Lampião from Vila Bela
Baixa Verde and Pajeú
Never forgot the old
Serra de Tacaratu
He never went to tell tall tales
Towards the parts of Novo Exu
Lampião was dancing
Xaxado in Nazaré
When Mane Neto arrived
The outlaws fled
They hid in the ridge
In Bom Nome, São José
