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Trio Sabiá

Amor do SertaoLove of the Sertão (Brazilian Hinterland)

Trio Sabiá · 20 Anos 20 Years (2019)

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Composer: Trio Sabiá

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Amor de sertão

Aconteceu comigo

Lá pras bandas da Bahia

Cheirei a menina

Nos teus olhos se via

Meu futuro a minha sina


Meu pranto rolava

Como água das cascatas

Daí a pouco a viola choraria

Toda dor que no meu peito

Confrangia


E a saudade da cabloca que saiu em retirada

Igualzinho aos passarinhos que saíram em revoadas

Deixando no sertão uma alma abandonada


Mais deixa estar, ingratidão

Ao cantar da patativa onde o sol já vai nascer

Vou tirar de minha mente

Cantar outro repente e vou tentar te esquecer


A solidão bateu, asa branca foi-se embora

Mandacaru secou esta chegando a minha hora

E a vida agora é noite já não vejo mais aurora

Tudo por causa da cabocla que nasceu lá no sertão

Tomando minha vida, mandei meu coração

Me prometendo muito amor mais me trocou por outro João

Translation

Love from the sertão

Happened to me

Over in the regions of Bahia

I smelled the girl

In your eyes one could see

My future, my destiny


My tears rolled down

Like water from the waterfalls

Soon the viola would cry

All the pain that in my chest

Afflicted


And the saudade for the cabocla who retreated

Just like the little birds that flew away in flocks

Leaving in the sertão an abandoned soul


But let it be, ingratitude

At the singing of the patativa where the sun is about to rise

I will take you out of my mind

Sing another repente and I will try to forget you


Loneliness struck, the asa branca left

The mandacaru dried up, my time is coming

And life is now night, I no longer see dawn

All because of the cabocla who was born there in the sertão

Taking my life, I sent my heart

Promising me much love but she traded me for another João

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