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Forró na ParaíbaForró in Paraíba

Luiz Wanderley · Coco com F Coco with F (2023)

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Composer: Luiz Wanderley

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Sé você fosse lá na Paraíba

No forró de Zé Guariba ia gostar

De vê Ernesto bruxo verde na viola

Na Sanfona Pé de Bola

Zé Pirrita no Ganzá


E o cantor era um tal de Zé Menino

Que é fã do Celestino

E só quer gritar tornei-me um ebrio

Em ritimo de côco

O Homem fica rouco mais não para de cantar


E no salão sai dançando Zé Cumprido

Sujeito Inxirido e prezepeiro

O Zé agarra a dama, enforca a dama

Parece inté que ta subindo num coqueiro


E diz pro sofoneiro bixim

Toque mais um e sai agarradinho

Fazendo Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum

Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-fum um


Zé do rancho segura na viola cabra bom da mulesta

Era uma hora da madrugada, o foró do Zé Guariba

Tava mais alegre ao que moça veia

Quando é pedida em casamento

Zé cumprido cabra que tem 1,90 de altura

Todo homem cumprido demais é preguicosso inxirido

E sem vergonha, chegou perto assim da Catulina

E disse, ou bixinha vamo rela o buxo um bucadinho

Ela oiou pra ele e disse: Ai, Zé eu to tão infadigada

Que nada bixinha pra rela buxo comigo

Que sou bonitão sou tremendão sou uma braza mora

Qualquer garota vem. Ah não diga Zé

Tu parece até com o Ronnie Von

Bem eu pareço com o Ronnie Von mais eu resolvo hein

Ah então eu vou. Ai ela foi desgracou-se

Zé Cumprido é o cabra mais sem-vergonha que eu já vi até hoje e saiu lá

Ai tava apertando a Catulina apertando tanto

Que não passava nem pensamento

Se o diabo tivesse no meio deles dois morria de arocho


Logo Mais, o Zé Cumprido olha pra Catulina e diz

Minha fia tá bom, ah Zé ta uma beleza

Tá sentindo alguma coisa, ainda não

Mais tu vai sentir isso é que é bom, e o forró

Continuou Zé Cumprido tava todo molhadinho de suor

E a Catulina também o sofoneiro puxavo o fole

Crlinho Marfozole chegava puxar o fole assim todinho

Daqui a pouco Zé Cumprido perguntou a Catulina

Escuta Catulina tu tá mexendo com a boca ai

Que disso é isso, a Zé cumprido eu tô eu, tô cum

Chiclete na boca, chiclete usado

Mulher tona jeito aqui no sertão

Chiclete de sertanejo é rolete de cana pesta

Vamos simbora

Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum

Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum

Ai, ui, ai, ui, ai

Translation

If you went there to Paraíba

At Zé Guariba's forró you would like it

To see Ernesto bruxo verde on the viola

On the accordion Pé de Bola

Zé Pirrita on the Ganzá


And the singer was a certain Zé Menino

Who is a fan of Celestino

And just wants to shout I became a drunkard

In côco rhythm

The man gets hoarse but doesn't stop singing


And on the dance floor Zé Cumprido comes out dancing

An Inxirido and prezepeiro fellow

Zé grabs the lady, chokes the lady

It even looks like he's climbing a coconut tree


And says to the accordion player, bixim

Play another one and keep dancing close

Doing Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum

Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-fum um


Zé do rancho holds the viola, a good cabra da mulesta

It was one in the morning, Zé Guariba's forró

Was happier than an old girl

When she's asked to marry

Zé Cumprido, a cabra who is 1.90 meters tall

Every man who is too tall is lazy, inxirido

And shameless, he got close to Catulina like this

And said, hey bixinha let's rub bellies a little bit

She looked at him and said: Oh, Zé I'm so tired

No way bixinha, to rub bellies with me

Because I'm handsome, I'm tremendous, I'm a hot ember, come on

Any girl comes. Oh don't say that, Zé

You even look like Ronnie Von

Well, I look like Ronnie Von but I get things done, huh

Oh, then I'll go. Oh, she went, she messed up

Zé Cumprido is the most shameless cabra I've ever seen until today and he left there

Oh, he was squeezing Catulina, squeezing so much

That not even a thought could pass

If the devil were between the two of them, he'd die from the tight squeeze


Soon after, Zé Cumprido looks at Catulina and says

My daughter, is it good? Oh Zé, it's wonderful

Are you feeling anything? Not yet

But you will feel it, that's what's good, and the forró

Continued. Zé Cumprido was all wet with sweat

And Catulina too. The accordion player pulled the bellows

Crlinho Marfozole would pull the bellows all the way like that

Soon after, Zé Cumprido asked Catulina

Listen Catulina, you're moving your mouth there

What is that? Oh Zé Cumprido, I am, I am with

Chewing gum in my mouth, used chewing gum

Woman, that's not how it is here in the sertão

Sertanejo chewing gum is a piece of sugarcane, pesta

Let's go

Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum

Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum, Ferreti-Fum

Oh, ouch, oh, ouch, oh

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