| Posso sair daqui para me organizar
| Can I leave here to organize myself
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| Posso sair daqui para desorganizar
| Can I leave here to disorganize
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| Posso sair daqui para me organizar
| Can I leave here to organize myself
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| Posso sair daqui para desorganizar
| Can I leave here to disorganize
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| Da lama ao caos, do caos a lama
| From mud to chaos, mud to chaos
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| Um homem roubado nunca se engana
| A robbed man is never wrong
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| Da lama ao caos, do caos a lama
| From mud to chaos, mud to chaos
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| Um homem roubado nunca se engana
| A robbed man is never wrong
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| O sol queimou, queimou a lama do rio
| The sun burned, the mud of the river burned
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| Eu ví um Chié andando devagar
| I saw a Chié walking slowly
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| E um aratu pra lá e pra cá
| And an aratu to and fro
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| E um carangueijo andando pro sul
| And a crab walking south
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| Saiu do mangue, virou gabiru
| It came out of the mangrove, turned into a gabiru
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| Oh Josué eu nunca ví tamanha desgraça
| Oh Josué I never seen such disgrace
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| Quanto mais miséria tem, mais urubu ameaça
| The more misery you have, the more vulture threatens
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| Peguei o balaio, fui na feira roubar tomate e cebola
| I took the bag, I went on to steal tomatoes and onions
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| Ia passando uma véia, pegou a minha cenoura
| She was passing a vein, she took my carrot
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| Aí minha véia, deixa a cenoura aquí
| There, my vein, leave the carrot here
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| Com a barriga vazia não consigo dormir
| With an empty belly I can't sleep
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| E com o bucho mais cheio comecei a pensar
| And with a fuller stomach I started to think
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| Que eu me organizando posso desorganizar
| That I, by organizing myself, can disorganize
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| Que eu desorganizando posso me organizar
| That I disorganizing myself can organize myself
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| Que eu me organizando posso desorganizar
| That I, by organizing myself, can disorganize
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| Da lama ao caos
| From mud to chaos
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| Do caos à lama
| From chaos to mud
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| Um homem roubado nunca se engana. | A stolen man is never wrong. |