Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Quando o verde dos teus óio
Se espáia na prantação
Uma lágrima doída
Vai moiá todo o sertão
No cantá do assum preto
Vai se ouvir mágoas e dor
Ribaçã morrê de sede
Com sodade de douto
Foi se embora a Asa Branca
Lá pro céu ela levou
O poeta de alma franca
Que todo mundo cantou
Meu Padrinho Padim Ciço
Faça dele um acessô
Morre o homem fica o nome
E o nome dele ficou
Translation
When the green of your eyes
Spreads across the crop field
A painful tear
Will wet the entire sertão
In the singing of the assum preto
Sorrows and pain will be heard
Ribaçã dies of thirst
With saudade for a learned one
Asa Branca went away
To the sky she took
The poet with a frank soul
That everyone sang
My Godfather Padim Ciço
Make him an assessor
The man dies, the name remains
And his name remained
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