Manu Chao Minha Galera

Текст песни "Manu Chao — Minha Galera"

o minha maconha
minha torcida
minha querida
minha galera

o minha cachoeira
minha menina
minha flamenga
minha capoeira

o minha mi nina
minha querida
minha Valeria...

o minha maloca
minha larica
minha cachaça
minha cadeia

minha vagabunda
o minha vida
minha membembe
minha ladeira

o minha menina
minha querida
minha Valeria

o minha torcida
minha flamenga
minha cadeia

o minha maconha
minha torcida
minha querida
minha galera

minha vagabunda
minha mambembe
minha beleza
minha capoeira
o minha menina
minha querida
minha Valeria...
minha torcida
minha flamenga
minha cadeia
o minha maconha
minha torcida
minha querida
minha galera...




english translation
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oh my marijuana
my fellow football fans
my darling
my people

my waterfall
my girl
my flamenga
my capoeira
my girl
my darling
my Valeria...

oh my shack
my hunger
my rum
my jail

my tramp
oh my life
my mambembe
oh my steep path
oh my girl
my darling
my Valeria

my football fans
my flamenga
my jail
my grass
my fellow football fans

my darling
my tramp
my mambembe
my beauty
my capoeira...

oh my girl
my darling
my Valeria...
my fellow football friends
my flamenga
my jail

oh my grass
my fellow football friends
my darling
my people



NOTES: definitions:
Minha galera means my people (originally the cheapest place in a football stadium, where the most enthusiastic fans stayed), nowadays can also mean any audience - or group of close friends)

Maconha - weed, grass, marijuana
Menina - a girl or young woman
Cachaca - a kind of Brazilian rum
Capoiera - an Afro- Brazilian fighting art
Larica – the munchies a person usually feels after smoking marijuana

Flamengo - the name of a soccer team, the use of the feminine form "flamenga" sounds nonsensical but may imply a female supporter of Flamengo football team

Torcida - the group of supporters of a football team
Valeria - a female name
Maloca - a shack, also Brazilian slang for a modest home

Mambembe - an adjective related to circus, in reference to the word vida-"life" means "my mambembe life", life like a circus.

Vagabunda, - a vagabond or tramp(noun), in an
adjective form paired with vida - "life" means a transient lifestyle

Ladeira - a very steep road or path