Homenagem Ao Malandro Lyrics in English Chico Buarque
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Homenagem Ao Malandro by Chico Buarque from Portuguese to English.
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Eu fui fazer um samba em homenagem
I went to do a samba in honor
À nata da malandragem
To the cream of the trickery
Que conheço de outros carnavais
That I know from other carnivals
Eu fui à Lapa e perdi a viagem
I went to Lapa and missed the trip
Que aquela tal malandragem
That such trickery
Não existe mais
It no longer exists
Agora já não é normal
Now it's not normal anymore
O que dá de malandro regular, profissional
What makes a regular, professional rogue
Malandro com aparato de malandro oficial
Trickster with official trickster apparatus
Malandro candidato a malandro federal
Rogue candidate for federal rogue
Malandro com retrato na coluna social
Trickster with portrait in the social column
Malandro com contrato, com gravata e capital
Trickster with a contract, with a tie and capital
Que nunca se dá mal
That never goes wrong
Mas o malandro pra valer
But the real scoundrel
Não espalha
Does not spread
Aposentou a navalha
Retired the razor
Tem mulher e filho e tralha e tal
He has a wife and son and stuff and stuff
Dizem as más línguas que ele até trabalha
People say that he even works
Mora lá longe e chacoalha
Lives far away and shakes
Num trem da Central
On a Central train
Agora já não é normal
Now it's not normal anymore
O que dá de malandro regular, profissional
What makes a regular, professional rogue
Malandro com aparato de malandro oficial
Trickster with official trickster apparatus
Malandro candidato a malandro federal
Rogue candidate for federal rogue
Malandro com retrato na coluna social
Trickster with portrait in the social column
Malandro com contrato, com gravata e capital
Trickster with a contract, with a tie and capital
Que nunca se dá mal
That never goes wrong
Mas o malandro pra valer
But the real scoundrel
Não espalha
Does not spread
Aposentou a navalha
Retired the razor
Tem mulher e filho e tralha e tal
He has a wife and son and stuff and stuff
Dizem as más línguas que ele até trabalha
People say that he even works
Mora lá longe e chacoalha
Lives far away and shakes
Num trem da Central
On a Central train
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