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Zito Borborema

Saudade de RecifeLonging for Recife

Zito Borborema · Os Dois Agarradinhos The Two Cuddled Together (1968)

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Composer: Zito Borborema

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Tenho saudade lá do meu Recife

Da Veneza Brasileira

Tenho saudade lá do meu, do meu Recife da Veneza Brasileira


Tenho saudade da Ponte Giratória

Mercado São José e Praça da Independência

É lá que o frevo impera com cadência

Mas seu eu tivesse no Alto da Boa Vista olhando às belezas que lá veneram

Vendo o Capibaribe mostrando suas águas atrantes e bela


Mas seu tivesse na praia de Rio Doce

Na praia de Olinda, Pina e Boa Viagem

Mas se eu tivesse em Gaibu onde chupei cajú com cachaça de cabeça

E comi uma peixada feita no coco, com pimenta malaqueta

Translation

I miss my Recife

The Brazilian Venice

I miss my, my Recife, the Brazilian Venice


I miss the Rotating Bridge

São José Market and Independence Square

It is there that the frevo reigns with cadence

But if I were at Alto da Boa Vista looking at the beauties that are venerated there

Seeing the Capibaribe showing its attractive and beautiful waters


But if I were on Rio Doce beach

On Olinda, Pina and Boa Viagem beach

But if I were in Gaibu where I sucked cashew with head cachaça

And ate a fish stew made in coconut, with malaqueta pepper

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