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Luiz Gonzaga

Padre SertanejoSertão Priest

Luiz Gonzaga · Aboios & Vaquejadas, Nos Caminhos da Fé e São João Na Roça Aboios & Vaquejadas, On the Paths of Faith and São João in the Countryside (2014)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga

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Quando o jeep lá em cima apontou

No arraia do meu sertão

A moçada lá em baixo gritou

Chegou o padre, vai ter procissão

Seu Vigário chegou muito alegre

Veio do Brejo da Madre de Deus

Deus lhe pague, seu Vigário

Estão alegres os filhos seus


É no jeep, é no pé, é no jegue

Não hã transporte que o padre não pegue } bis


Como é o pobre o pobre do padre

No sertão do meu Nordeste

Sua roupa é tão surrada

Algodão é o que ele veste

Mesmo assim o padre é feliz

Contando as contas do seu rosário

Porque o povo sem paga lhe diz

Deus lhe pague, seu Vigário

Translation

When the jeep appeared up above

At the arraial of my sertão

The young folks down below shouted

The priest has arrived, there will be a procession

Your Vicar arrived very happy

He came from Brejo da Madre de Deus

God bless you, Your Vicar

Your children are happy


It's by jeep, it's on foot, it's by jegue

There's no transport the priest won't take }bis


How poor the poor priest is

In the sertão of my Nordeste

His clothes are so worn out

Cotton is what he wears

Even so, the priest is happy

Counting the beads of his rosary

Because the people tell him without pay

God bless you, Your Vicar

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