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Trio Caeté

Tive Que ArribáI Had to Leave

Trio Caeté · No Balanço do Trem In the Rhythm of the Train (2010)

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Composer: Trio Caeté

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Quem me fez arriba foi a seca

Esperança acabou, me cansei de esperar

Que chovesse por lá

Não choveu então eu arribei


O sertão se acabando em seca

Ninguém sabe mais o que fazer

O remédio é mesmo arriba

Se ficar é ficar pra morrer

O mormaço mata a plantação

Ninguém tem mais nada pra comer

É matuta com pé na estrada

Sem saber o que deve fazer


Se ficar morre seco de fome

Se fugir do sertão vai morrer

Translation

It was the drought that made me leave

Hope ran out, I got tired of waiting

For it to rain there

It didn't rain, so I left


The backlands are dying in drought

No one knows what to do anymore

The only solution is to leave

If you stay, you stay to die

The heat kills the crops

No one has anything to eat anymore

It's a country woman with her foot on the road

Not knowing what to do


If you stay, you die dry of hunger

If you flee the backlands, you will die


If you stay, you die dry of hunger

If you flee the backlands, you will die

All lyrics by Trio Caeté

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