Gilberto Gil
Jeca total lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Portuguese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1975
- Genre
- Bossa Nova
- Length
- 2:56
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Presente, passado
Present, past
Representante da gente no senado
A representative for us in the senate
Em plena sessão
In the middle of the session
Defendendo um projeto
Defending a project
Que eleva o teto
That raises the ceiling
Salarial no sertão
Of salaries in the backlands
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Doente curado
Healed sick
Representante da gente na sala
A representative for us in the room
Defronte da televisão assistindo Gabriela
In front of the television watching Gabriela
Viver tantas cores
Living so many colors
Dores da emancipação
The pains of emancipation
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Um ente querido
A loved one
Representante da gente
A representative of us
No olimpo da imaginação
In the Olympus of imagination
Imaginacionando o que seria a criação
Imagining what creation would be
De um ditado, um dito pó-plural
From a saying, a plural saying
Mito da mitologia brasileira
Myth of Brazilian mythology
Jeca total
Total Jeca
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Um tempo perdido
A time lost
Interessante a maneira do tempo
Interesting the way of time
Ter perdição, quer dizer
To have perdition, that means
Se perder no correr, decorrer da história
To get lost in the run, the course of history
Glória, decadência, memória
Glory, decay, memory
Era de Aquarius ou mera ilusão
Age of Aquarius or mere illusion
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Jorge Salomão
Jorge Salomão
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Jorge Salomão
Jorge Salomão
Jeca total Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca Jeca Tatu
Jeca total Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca Jeca Tatu
Jeca Tatu Jeca total
Jeca Tatu Total Jeca
Jeca Tatu Jeca total
Jeca Tatu Total Jeca
Jeca total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Total Jeca must be Jeca Tatu
Presente, passado
Present, past
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Key vocabulary
- jeca
- country bumpkin
- deve
- must
- tatu
- armadillo
- passado
- pastA2
- representante
- representativeB1
- gente
- peopleA2
- senado
- senateB2
- plena
- fullB1
- sessão
- session
- defendendo
- defending
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About this song
Gilberto Gil was a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter associated with Tropicália and other innovative trends in Brazilian music. He is known for expanding Brazilian musical language through late-1960s and 1970s recordings and for combining an active political career, including serving as Brazil’s minister of culture, with ongoing work as a recording artist.