Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Quero ver gado correndo
Quero vaqueiro aboiando
Quero tardinha chovendo
Sol de manhã clareando
Quero tristeza morrendo
Muita alegria brotando
Quero ver na passarada
No arrebol cantarolando
Quero a moçada contente
Os velhos tudo animado
Os corações dessa gente
Batendo emocionados
Quero a sanfona gemendo
Xote, baião e xaxado
Trago sempre na lembrança
Recordações do passado
Quero ver as vaquejadas
Quebra de boi no mourão
Aboios apaixonados
Lenço acenando na mão
Morena enxuta vibrando
Quando eu cantar meu baião
Isso tudo eu quero ver
Quando voltar pro sertão
Fiz os meus sonhos prá ver
Meu pedacinho de chão
Pernambuco minha vida
Novo Exu minha razão
Translation
I want to see cattle running
I want a vaqueiro singing aboiando
I want the late afternoon raining
The morning sun brightening
I want sadness dying
Much joy sprouting
I want to see the flock of birds
Singing at dawn
I want the young people happy
The old folks all lively
The hearts of these people
Beating with emotion
I want the sanfona groaning
Xote, baião and xaxado
I always carry in my memory
Memories of the past
I want to see the vaquejadas
Bull breaking at the post
Passionate aboiados
Handkerchief waving in hand
Slender Morena vibrating
When I sing my baião
All this I want to see
When I return to the sertão
I made my dreams to see
My little piece of land
Pernambuco my life
Novo Exu my reason
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