Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
O Rio Brígida
Nasce lá no pé da serra
Na Fazenda Gameleira
De seu Chico Alencar
E vai descendo
Vai rolando devagar
Chega em Novo Exu
E com licença eu vou cantar
Em Novo Exu
Ele chora e sai rezando
Vendo gente se matando
Briga de irmão com irmão
Tem jeito não
Que isso é coisa de cacique
E vai chegando
Em São João do Araripe
Ah! Menino
Se esse riacho falasse
Quanta coisa
Que ele tinha pra contar
Ah! Quanta festa
Quanto samba sem horário
Eu e meu pai Januário
Nós tocando sem parar
São as lembranças
Nessas água a rolar
Vai cortando
Monte Belo, São Raimuindo
Tamarina, Barriguda, e Baraúnas
E tem passagem
Por Granito, que bonito
Olha aí Parnamirim
Terra Nova e Orocó
E desatou
No São Francisco esse nó }bis
Translation
The Rio Brígida
Is born there at the foot of the mountain range
On Fazenda Gameleira
Of Mr. Chico Alencar
And it goes down
It rolls slowly
Arrives in Novo Exu
And with your permission, I will sing
In Novo Exu
It cries and leaves praying
Seeing people killing each other
Fight of brother with brother
There's no way
That this is a thing of cacique
And it keeps arriving
In São João do Araripe
Ah! Boy
If this stream could speak
How many things
That it had to tell
Ah! How many parties
How much samba without a schedule
My father Januário and I
We playing without stopping
They are the memories
In these rolling waters
It keeps cutting through
Monte Belo, São Raimundo
Tamarina, Barriguda, and Baraúnas
And it passes through
Granito, how beautiful
Look there Parnamirim
Terra Nova and Orocó
And it untied
This knot in the São Francisco }bis
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