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Trio Nordestino

CarcaráCarcará

Trio Nordestino · Canta o Nordeste Sing the Northeast (2017)

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Composer: Trio Nordestino, Lucy Alves

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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics

Full lyrics

Carcará

Lá no sertão

É um bicho que avoa que nem avião

É um pássaro malvado

Tem o bico volteado que nem gavião

Carcará

Quando vê roça queimada

Sai voando, cantando

Carcará

Vai fazer sua caçada

Carcará come inté cobra queimada

Quando chega o tempo da invernada

O sertão não tem mais roça queimada

Carcará mesmo assim num passa fome

Os burrego que nasce na baixada


Carcará

Pega, mata e come

Carcará

Num vai morrer de fome

Carcará

Mais coragem do que home

Carcará

Pega, mata e come


Carcará é malvado, é valentão

É a águia de lá do meu sertão

Os burrego novinho num pode andá

Ele puxa o umbigo inté matá


Carcará

Pega, mata e come

Carcará

Num vai morrer de fome

Carcará

Mais coragem do que home

Carcará

Translation

Carcará

There in the sertão

Is a creature that flies like an airplane

It's a wicked bird

It has a curved beak like a hawk

Carcará

When it sees a burnt field

It flies out, singing

Carcará

Goes to do its hunting

Carcará even eats burnt snake

When the rainy season arrives

The sertão no longer has burnt fields

Carcará still doesn't starve

The young calves that are born in the lowlands


Carcará

Catches, kills and eats

Carcará

Won't die of hunger

Carcará

More courage than a man

Carcará

Catches, kills and eats


Carcará is wicked, it's a tough guy

It's the eagle from my sertão

The very young calves can't walk

It pulls the umbilical cord until it kills them


Carcará

Catches, kills and eats

Carcará

Won't die of hunger

Carcará

More courage than a man

Carcará

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