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Zenilton

A Tristeza do JacuThe Jacu's Sadness

Zenilton · O Grilo Dela Her Problem (1982)

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Composer: Zenilton

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O jacu que vovó está criando

Vive preso lá no fundo do quintal

Suas penas já caíram de desgosto

Está magro igual a um "pinica pau"


Já não canta porque vive entristecido

Por viver distante do matagal

Dói na gente ver um pássaro triste

Coitado do jacu passando mal


Há jacu sem pena, há jacu pelado

Há jacu sofrido me deixa emocionado


Faça o favor de respeitar a natureza

É um dever que todo cidadão tem

Não use armas pra matar os passarinhos

Tão bonitinhos nunca faz mal a ninguém


Vivem cantando na sombra do juazeiro

De manhã cedo quando vem rompendo o sol

Canta o galo de campina, o bem-te-vi

O jacu, patativa e rouxinol


Há jacu sem pena, há jacu pelado

Há jacu sofrido me deixa emocionado

Translation

The jacu that grandma is raising

Lives trapped there at the back of the yard

Its feathers have already fallen from sorrow

It's thin like a woodpecker


It no longer sings because it lives saddened

For living far from the thicket

It hurts us to see a sad bird

Poor jacu, suffering badly


There's a featherless jacu, there's a bare jacu

There's a suffering jacu that moves me


Please respect nature

It's a duty every citizen has

Don't use weapons to kill the little birds

So pretty, they never harm anyone


They live singing in the shade of the juazeiro tree

Early in the morning when the sun breaks through

Sings the Red-cowled Cardinal, the Great Kiskadee

The jacu, Blue-black Grassquit, and nightingale


There's a featherless jacu, there's a bare jacu

There's a suffering jacu that moves me

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