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Luiz Gonzaga

Sou Do BancoI Am from the Bank

Luiz Gonzaga · Luiz Gonzaga "Eu E Meu Pai" Luiz Gonzaga "Me and My Father" (1979)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga

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É que o matuto deu de garra dos papéis

E foi bater no banco de juazeiro

Tirou dinheiro e comprou cinco vaquinhas

E para tanto contratou logo um vaqueiro

O tangedor montou logo um alazão

Abriu os peitos no aboio que não tem fim

Coitada da boiada encabulada

Com o chocalho tocando assim


Eu sou do banco, do banco do Brasil

Do banco do Nordeste, cabra da peste

No Ceará eu sou do Bec

Mas em Pernambuco sou do Bandepe

Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe


E lá vai ele assustando a matutada

Em cada casa só se ouve um zum-zum-zum

Gado famoso e bonito desse tipo

Só quem possui é Feitosa dos Inhamús

Se alguém pergunta de quem é essa boiada

Ele responde: É de seu Zé Clementino

É aí que o gado emperra, o gado berra

Que o vaqueiro ta mentindo


Eu sou do banco, do banco do Brasil

Do banco do Nordeste, cabra da peste

No Ceará eu sou do Bec

Mas em Pernambuco sou do Bandepe

Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe

Translation

It's that the countryman got hold of the papers

And went to sit on the juazeiro bench

He took out money and bought five little cows

And for that, he immediately hired a vaqueiro

The drover immediately mounted a sorrel horse

He opened his chest in an aboio that has no end

Poor cattle, embarrassed

With the cowbell ringing like that


I am from the bank, from Banco do Brasil

From Banco do Nordeste, cabra da peste

In Ceará I am from Bec

But in Pernambuco I am from Bandepe

Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe


And there he goes, scaring the country folk

In every house, you only hear a buzz-buzz-buzz

Famous and beautiful cattle of this type

Only Feitosa dos Inhamús possesses them

If someone asks whose cattle this is

He answers: It belongs to Zé Clementino

That's when the cattle stop, the cattle moo

That the vaqueiro is lying


I am from the bank, from Banco do Brasil

From Banco do Nordeste, cabra da peste

In Ceará I am from Bec

But in Pernambuco I am from Bandepe

Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe, Bandepe

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