Homenagem Ao Malandro Lyrics Translation in English

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Portuguese Lyrics

English Translation

Eu fui fazer um samba em homenagem

I went to make a samba in homage

À nata da malandragem

To the cream of the crop of the streetwise

Que conheço de outros carnavais

That I know from other carnivals

Eu fui à Lapa e perdi a viagem

I went to Lapa and it was a wasted trip

Que aquela tal malandragem

Because that kind of streetwise

Não existe mais

No longer exists


Agora já não é normal

Nowadays, it's no longer normal

O que dá de malandro regular, profissional

The amount of regular, professional hustlers

Malandro com aparato de malandro oficial

Hustlers with the airs of an official hustler

Malandro candidato a malandro federal

Hustler aspiring to be a federal hustler

Malandro com retrato na coluna social

Hustler with a picture in the social column

Malandro com contrato, com gravata e capital

Hustler with a contract, tie, and capital

Que nunca se dá mal

Who never has a setback


Mas o malandro pra valer

But the genuine hustler

- Não espalha

- Doesn't brag

Aposentou a navalha

Retired the razor

Tem mulher e filho e tralha e tal

Has a woman, a child, and belongings and such

Dizem as más línguas que ele até trabalha

Rumor has it that he even works

Mora lá longe e chacoalha

Lives far away and rattles

Num trem da Central

In a train from Central


Agora já não é normal

Nowadays, it's no longer normal

O que dá de malandro regular, profissional

The amount of regular, professional hustlers

Malandro com aparato de malandro oficial

Hustlers with the airs of an official hustler

Malandro candidato a malandro federal

Hustler aspiring to be a federal hustler

Malandro com retrato na coluna social

Hustler with a picture in the social column

Malandro com contrato, com gravata e capital

Hustler with a contract, tie, and capital

Que nunca se dá mal

Who never has a setback


Mas o malandro pra valer

But the genuine hustler

- Não espalha

- Doesn't brag

Aposentou a navalha

Retired the razor

Tem mulher e filho e tralha e tal

Has a woman, a child, and belongings and such

Dizem as más línguas que ele até trabalha

Rumor has it that he even works

Mora lá longe e chacoalha

Lives far away and rattles

Num trem da Central

In a train from Central

Added by Fabio Santos
Luanda, Angola December 26, 2024
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