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Luiz Gonzaga

Pau De Arara/Juazeiro - Ao VivoMacaw's Stick / Juazeiro - Live

Luiz Gonzaga · Luiz Gonzaga Volta Pra Curtir Luiz Gonzaga Returns to Enjoy (1972)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga

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Full lyrics

Quando eu vim do sertão

Seu môço, do meu Bodocó

A malota era um saco

E o cadeado era um nó


Só trazia a coragem e a cara

Viajando num pau-de-arara

Eu penei, mas aqui cheguei

Eu penei, mas aqui cheguei


Trouxe um triângulo, no matolão

Trouxe um gonguê, no matolão

Trouxe um zabumba dentro do matolão

Xóte, maracatu e baião

Tudo isso eu trouxe no meu matolão


Quando eu vim do sertão

Seu môço, do meu Bodocó

A malota era um saco

E o cadeado era um nó


Só trazia a coragem e a cara

Viajando num pau-de-arara

Eu penei, mas aqui cheguei

Eu penei, mas aqui cheguei


Trouxe um triângulo, no matolão

Trouxe um gonguê, no matolão

Trouxe um zabumba dentro do matolão

Xóte, maracatu e baião

Tudo isso eu trouxe no meu matolão


Trouxe um triângulo, no matolão

Trouxe um gonguê, no matolão

Trouxe um zabumba dentro do matolão

Xóte, maracatu e baião

Tudo isso eu trouxe no meu matolão


Quando eu vim do sertão

Seu môço, do meu Bodocó

A malota era um saco

E o cadeado era um nó


Só trazia a coragem e a cara

Viajando num pau-de-arara

Eu penei, mas aqui cheguei

Eu penei, mas aqui cheguei

Mas aqui cheguei

Translation

When I came from the sertão

Sir, from my Bodocó

My bag was a sack

And the padlock was a knot


I only brought courage and my face

Traveling on a pau-de-arara

I struggled, but I arrived here

I struggled, but I arrived here


I brought a triangle, in my bundle

I brought a gonguê, in my bundle

I brought a zabumba inside my bundle

Xóte, maracatu and baião

All this I brought in my bundle


When I came from the sertão

Sir, from my Bodocó

My bag was a sack

And the padlock was a knot


I only brought courage and my face

Traveling on a pau-de-arara

I struggled, but I arrived here

I struggled, but I arrived here


I brought a triangle, in my bundle

I brought a gonguê, in my bundle

I brought a zabumba inside my bundle

Xóte, maracatu and baião

All this I brought in my bundle


I brought a triangle, in my bundle

I brought a gonguê, in my bundle

I brought a zabumba inside my bundle

Xóte, maracatu and baião

All this I brought in my bundle


When I came from the sertão

Sir, from my Bodocó

My bag was a sack

And the padlock was a knot


I only brought courage and my face

Traveling on a pau-de-arara

I struggled, but I arrived here

I struggled, but I arrived here

But I arrived here

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