Composer: Luiz Gonzaga
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Eu quarqué dia
Vou-me embora pro sertão
Pois saudade
Não me deixa sossegar
Chegando lá
Visto logo meu gibão
Selo o cavalo
E vou pro mato vaquejar
O bom vaqueiro
Traz sempre no alforge
Farinha seca
Rapadura, carne assada
Mas tem um fraco
Que é um vício que num foge
Samba de fole
Com muié desocupada
Êi, êi, gado
Êi, êi, gado
Êi, êi, êi, êi, êi, êi,êi, êi, êi, boi...
Vou pegar o cara preta
Boto chocáio e careta
E depois conto como foi
Translation
Any day now
I'm leaving for the sertão
Because saudade
Doesn't let me rest
Arriving there
I'll immediately put on my gibão
Saddle the horse
And go to the bush to vaquejar
The good vaqueiro
Always carries in his saddlebag
Dry flour
Rapadura, roasted meat
But he has a weakness
Which is a vice he can't escape
Accordion samba
With an idle woman
Hey, hey, cattle
Hey, hey, cattle
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, ox...
I'm going to get the black-faced one
I'll put a cowbell and a mask on it
And then I'll tell you how it went
