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Luiz Gonzaga

Saudade de PernambucoLonging for Pernambuco

Luiz Gonzaga · Meu Baiao My Baiao (2021)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga, Zé Dantas

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Ai que saudade lá de Pernambuco

De Iputinga, Arruda, Encruzilhada

De Água Fria, Torre, Dois Irmãos

A saudade tá danada, num resisto não

Se me aperta mais o peito, pego o avião

Vou comer sarapaté, carne de charque com feijão

Vou tomar uma Pitú ou Chica Boa com limão

Quando eu lembro do Recife, ai que dor no coração

Da sanfona do Sivuca, do Sherlock a conversar

Do Turim e o Buda Peixe, Haroldo Praça a gaguejar

Da peixada da lagosta, do siri com camarão

Da praia de Rio doce, tudo é belo meu irmão

Do caju, do abacaxi e das tarde de verão

Ai, ai meu Deus eu vou voltar

Não posso mais, quando eu me lembro, dá vontade de chorar

Daquelas pontes do Capibaribe

Das caçadas em Beberibe

E das noites de luar

Dos valentões com peixeira na cinta

E um punhado em sobreaviso

E a rasteira a vadiar

Em Pernambuco tudo é diferente

Como é boa aquela gente quem vai lá num quer voltar


Te aquieta, coração véio!

Tais numa peinha de nada, hein?!

Translation

Oh, how I miss Pernambuco

Iputinga, Arruda, Encruzilhada

Água Fria, Torre, Dois Irmãos

The longing is fierce, I can't resist it

If my chest tightens any more, I'll take the plane

I'll eat sarapatel, dried meat with beans

I'll have a Pitú or Chica Boa with lime

When I remember Recife, oh, what a pain in my heart

The accordion of Sivuca, Sherlock chatting away

Turim and Buda Peixe, Haroldo Praça stuttering

The fish stew of lobster, the crab with shrimp

The Rio Doce beach, everything is beautiful, my brother

The cashew, the pineapple, and the summer afternoons

Oh, my God, I'm going back

I can't anymore, when I remember, it makes me want to cry

Those bridges of the Capibaribe

The hunts in Beberibe

And the moonlit nights

The tough guys with knives on their belts

And a handful on alert

And the tripping to wander

In Pernambuco everything is different

How good are those people, whoever goes there doesn't want to return


Settle down, old heart!

You're in a minor fit, huh?!

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