Happy Birthday, Seu Jorge!
Source: Marcelo Teson, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Seu Jorge turns 51 today. This is from his 2001 album, “Carolina.”
The Pekingese and the Pit Bull
I don’t want to go out!
Today I’m going to stay put
It’s no use insisting
I’m not going to the bar
I don’t want to go out!
Today no lines, no smokes
I’m not playing pool
I’m not touching the cue
There are a lot of crazy people
Bugging me
Pissing me off
Today I’m on a short fuse
I’m gonna stay in my shack
There’s no lack of rats
To drag me into their holes
Small talk, amateur, caramba
Shoeless child in the cobbler’s house
A parrot hanging out with an ovenbird
Gets screwed
Ends up a stonemason’s assistant
I’m not a bat anymore
Today I’m a little bird
Putting a little flour
In my stew alone
A Pekingese that wants
To play with a pit bull
Has gone completely nuts
Ends up a picnic for a vulture
I live down in Flamengo
With a building in the back
In front of the blue wall
Ends up a picnic for a vulture
I’m going to ask Miss Sula
To make chicken with okra
And a plate of mush
Ends up a picnic for a vulture
I come from the gogó da ema*
And there’s no problem
Cuz I don’t get into it
With anyone from the south side
Ends up a picnic for a vulture
I told you all!
Ends up a picnic for a vulture
Ends up a picnic for a vulture
*A landmark tree in Maceió that has since been lost to the sea. See picture below.
