Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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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 sertão
When the cabra is burned out
Inside the samba
He only wants to dance toasted
He grabs the morena
And chokes her by the waist
He holds on very tight
Like someone feeling dryness
He's thirsty and wants to kill it
And the moreninha
She just keeps spinning
In the corner struggling
Like a hammock swaying
Without knowing where to go
Because the cabra stays
On her neck giving a sniff
With a bee in the perêro
That starts to bloom
And the accordionist
Who from being drunk is already limp
Lying on top of the fole
Only knows how to give three notes
Terreco, teco
Terreco, teco
Terreco, teco
Patapitú, Patapitú,
It's only when you see
The toasted one finishing himself off
It's when the owner
Of this house of the moment
Wakes up grumpy
To inspect the hall
With the peixeira
He immediately wakes up the accordionist, pest!
And behind him
Come about three brave cabras
Because whoever doesn't dance decently
Immediately gets stabbed
