Composer: Luiz Gonzaga, Zé Dantas
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Lá no sertão
Quando o cabra tá queimado
Dentro do samba
Ele só quer dançar torrado
Pega a morena
E enforca na cintura
Agarra bem segura
Como quem sente secura
Tá com sede e quer matar
E a moreninha
Fica só rodopiando
No canto estribuchando
Que nem rede balançando
Sem saber pra donde vá
Pois fica o cabra
No cangote dando chêro
Com abêia no perêro
Que começa a fulorá
E o sanfoneiro
Que de bêbo já tá mole
Deitado em riba do fole
Só trêis nota sabe dá
Terreco, teco
Terreco, teco
Terreco, teco
Patapitú, Patapitú,
É só se ver
O torrado se acabar
É quando o dono
Dessa casa de momento
Se acorda rabujento
Pro salão fiscalizar
Cum a peixeira
Acorda logo o sanfoneiro, peste!
E atrás dele
Vem uns trêis cabra valente
Pois quem num dançar decente
Entra logo no punha
Translation
There in the backlands
When the guy is burned out
Inside the samba
He just wants to dance toasted
He grabs the brunette
And chokes her at the waist
Grabs her real tight
Like someone feeling dryness
He's thirsty and wants to quench it
And the little brunette
Just keeps spinning around
In the corner struggling
Like a hammock swinging
Without knowing where to go
Because the guy stays
Giving her a scent on the nape
With a bee on the 'perêro'
That begins to bloom
And the accordion player
Who's already limp from being drunk
Lying on top of the bellows
Only knows how to give three notes
Terreco, teco
Terreco, teco
Terreco, teco
Patapitú, Patapitú,
You can only see
The toasted one ending
It's when the owner
Of this house of the moment
Wakes up grumpy
To inspect the hall
With the knife
Wakes up the accordion player right away, pest!
And behind him
Come about three brave guys
Because whoever doesn't dance decently
Goes right into the punch
