Lyrics and translation Chico Buarque - Morena De Angola

Morena De Angola

Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?
Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?

Será que a morena cochila escutando o cochicho do chocalho?
Será que desperta gingando e já sai chocalhando pro trabalho?

Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?

Será que ela tá na cozinha guisando a galinha à cabidela?
Será que esqueceu da galinha e ficou batucando na panela?
Será que no meio da mata, na moita, a morena inda chocalha?
Será que ela não fica afoita pra dançar na chama da batalha?

Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Passando pelo regimento ela faz requebrar a sentinela

Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?
Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?

Será que quando ela vai pra cama a morena se esquece dos chocalhos?
Será que namora fazendo bochincho com seus penduricalhos?
Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?
Será que ela tá caprichando no peixe que eu trouxe de Benguela
Será que tá no remelexo e abandonou meu peixe na tigela?
Será quando fica choca põe de quarentena o seu chocalho?
Será que depois ela bota a canela no nicho do pirralho?
Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Eu acho que deixei um caho do meu coração na Catumbela

Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Será que ela mexe o chocalho ou o chocalho é que mexe com ela?

Morena de Angola que leva o chocalho amarrado na canela
Morena, bichinha danada, minha camarada do MPLA

Dark-Skinned Angolan Woman

Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?
Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?

Could it be that the dark-skinned woman falls asleep listening to the rattle's whispering?
Could it be that she wakes up swaying and goes around rattling for work?

Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?

Could it be that she is in the kitchen stewing chicken in blood sauce?
Could it be that she forgot about the chicken and is banging on the pot?
Could it be that the dark-skinned woman is still rattling in the bush, in the thicket?
Could it be that she does not get anxious to dance in the flames of battle?

Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Walking past the regiment she makes the sentry swagger

Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?
Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?

Could it be that when she goes to bed the dark-skinned woman forgets about the rattles?
Could it be that she dates making a din with her trinkets?
Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?
Could it be that she is fawning over the fish I brought from Benguela
Could it be that she is shaking her hips and has abandoned my fish in the bowl?
Could it be that when she gets broody she puts her rattle in quarantine?
Could it be that later she puts her leg in the baby's cradle?
Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
I think I left a piece of my heart in Catumbela

Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Could it be that she shakes the rattle or is it the rattle that moves her?

Dark-skinned Angolan woman who wears a rattle tied around her ankle
Dark-skinned woman, you little minx, my MPLA comrade