Composer: Zito Borborema
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
MATA SETE
Zito Borborema
Os moradores do Engenho Mané Pedro
Quase que morrem de medo quando ouvir falar
Um tal de Mata Sete fugiu da cadeia
A coisa estava feia naquele lugar
Foram falar com o Simeão
Inspetor de quarteirão
Muito macho pra brigar
(BIS) Aí fizeram uma tucaia pra pegar
O Mata Sete se viesse do engenho perturbar
Mas o negócio é que o Mata Sete
Era de jogar confete e de fritar bolinho
Falava mansinho não era de nada
Corria da parada até com um sozinho
O Inspetor correu forte pra o engenho
Com todo o seu empenho pra Mata Sete pegar
Mata Sete quando viu o Inspetor
Falou fino, se pirou
Desapareceu de lá.
Translation
MATA SETE
Zito Borborema
The residents of Engenho Mané Pedro
Almost died of fear when they heard tell
A certain Mata Sete escaped from jail
Things were bad in that place
They went to talk to Simeão
Block inspector
Very tough to fight
(BIS) Then they set an ambush to catch
Mata Sete if he came from the engenho to disturb
But the thing is that Mata Sete
Was one to throw confetti and fry little cakes
Spoke softly, wasn't anything
He ran from the fight even from a single person
The Inspector ran hard to the engenho
With all his effort to catch Mata Sete
Mata Sete when he saw the Inspector
Spoke thinly, he bolted
Disappeared from there.
