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Luiz Gonzaga

Tristeza Do JecaThe Country Bumpkin's Sadness

Luiz Gonzaga · Eterno Cantador Eternal Singer (1998)

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Composer: Luiz Gonzaga

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Full lyrics

Neste verso tão singelo

Minha bela, meu amor

Pra mecê quero contar

O meu sofrer e a minha dor

Eu, sou como o Sabiá

Que quando canta é só tristeza

Desde o galho que ele está

Nesta viola

Eu canto e gemo de verdade

Cada toada

Representa uma saudade

Eu nasci naquela serra

Num ranchinho a beira-chão

Todo cheio de buraco

Onde a lua faz clarão

E, quando chega a madrugada

Lá no mato a passarada

Principia um barulhão

Nessa viola...

Lá no mato tudo é triste

Desde o jeito de falar

Quando eu risco na viola

Dá vontade de chorar

Não tem um que cante alegre

Tudo vive padecendo

Cantando pra se aliviar

Nessa viola....

Vou parar com minha viola

Já não posso mais cantar

Pois o Jeca quando canta

Tem vontade de chorar

E o choro que vai caindo

Devagar vai se sumindo

Como as águas vão pro mar

Translation

In this simple verse

My beautiful one, my love

To you I want to tell

My suffering and my pain

I am like the sabiá

That when it sings it's only sadness

From the branch where it is

On this viola

I truly sing and groan

Each toada

Represents a saudade

I was born in that serra

In a small ranch by the ground

All full of holes

Where the moon makes light

And, when dawn arrives

There in the mato the birds

Begin a big noise

On this viola...

There in the mato everything is sad

From the way of speaking

When I strum the viola

It makes me want to cry

There isn't one who sings happily

Everything lives suffering

Singing to relieve oneself

On this viola....

I will stop with my viola

I can no longer sing

For the Jeca when he sings

Wants to cry

And the cry that is falling

Slowly disappears

As the waters go to the sea

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