Composer: Messias Holanda
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Fui a Minas Gerais conhecer um bar
Gostei das coisas boas que deixei por lá
Esse ano se a safra não for tão mesquinha
Eu volto para o baile e caso com uma mineirinha.
Mineira, chegue pra cá calanguear.
Mineira, deixe a poeira levantar
Chamo todos os forrozeiros lá pro Rio de Janeiro
Sanfoneiro, triangleiro, pra tocar só pra mineiro
E lá pra meia noite eu grito toda gente
Tudo pro terreiro pra cantar esse repente
Translation
I went to Minas Gerais to visit a bar
I liked the good things I left behind there
This year if the harvest isn't so meager
I'll return to the dance and marry a mineirinha.
Mineira, come here to calanguear.
Mineira, let the dust rise
I call all the forrozeiros there to Rio de Janeiro
Sanfoneiro, triangleiro, to play only for mineiro
And there around midnight I call out to everyone
Everyone to the terreiro to sing this repente
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