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Quero Voltar pro NordesteI Want to Go Back to the Northeast

Marlene Vidal · 1978 1978 (1978)

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Composer: Marlene Vidal

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Quero matar a saudade

Quando voltar pro nordeste

Molhar os pés no riacho

Eita saudade da peste

Desde que sai de lá

Em voltar eu só pensei

Cantando esse verso torto

Foi lembrança que eu guardei

Que eu guardei


Quero abraçar minha gente

Contar tudo que passei

Um pio de esperança

Em todo lugar que andei

Eu pensava no futuro

Tanta coisa que nem sei

Tanta ilusão perdida

Foi ai que eu penei

Que eu penei


Pra tentar subir na vida

Por isso de longe venho

Estou na cidade grande

Vejo tudo e nada tenho

Lá lá lá lá lá lá

Lá lá lá lá lá lá

Lá lá lá lá lá lá

Lá lá lá lá lá lá

Vou voltar

Translation

I want to kill the longing

When I return to the Northeast

Wet my feet in the stream

Oh, what a terrible longing

Since I left there

I only thought about returning

Singing this crooked verse

It was a memory I kept

That I kept


I want to hug my people

Tell everything I've been through

A chirp of hope

In every place I walked

I was thinking about the future

So many things I don't even know

So much lost illusion

That's when I suffered

That I suffered


To try to get ahead in life

That's why I come from afar

I'm in the big city

I see everything and have nothing

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

I will return

All lyrics by Marlene Vidal

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