Mestre Pastinha - Eternamente

Mestre Pastinha - Eternamente - « : Enero 25, 2007, 08:40:38 » by Gavião on Capoeiras.Com v.06

Mestre Pastinha's album - Track 1

[Talking folder]

Hey, God is bigger, I am small

What I have, God gave me

In the capoeira circle,

Big and small am I

My name is Vicente Ferreira Pastinha. I was born to capoeira, and will leave capoeira only when I'm dead. I love the capoeira game, and there's no better thing in my life than it.

[Music]

Bahia our Bahia

Capital is Salvador

Who doesn't know capoeira

Can't give your value

Capoeira came from Africa

African who brought it

Everyone can learn

General and also who is a Doctor

Anyone who wants to learn

Come here in Salvador

Look for Master Pastinha

He is a teacher

Long live my master

That's who taught me

Iê Rio de Janeiro

Iê Morro de São Paulo

Iê Lighthouse of Bahia

Dona Alice, don't catch me

Don't catch me,

don't touch me,

don't catch me no

Canarinho from Germany,

Who killed my curió?

Who has faith in God

never falls into trouble

Canarinho from Germany

Who killed my curió?

I play capoeira,

but Pastinha is the greatest

Canarinho from Germany

Who killed my curió?

The secret of the moon,

Who knows, it's the sun's glare

Canarinho from Germany

Who killed my curió?

I play capoeira

In Bahia and Maceió

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

I will sing my song

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

Old hole has a snake inside

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

With one, two or three inside

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

Capoeira only Angola

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

This is my opinion

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

I play so much

Good God, Lord Saint Benedict

How much I throw to the ground

[Talking folder]

Today I'm 78 years old. My life is too messy for me to tell, but there are hundreds, thousands of persons who know me. People who are by my side since childhood, who are with me now. They can tell about [my life]. Everyone [of these people] can say something about my biography; I accept it. But there's a detail: I was never a fool!

Mestre Pastinha's album - Track 2

[Talking folder]

In mandinga, I was not a fool. But I'll not tell anything about it, because it'd be a very long story, and I'd feel like in heaven...

Iê, city of Asunción

capital of Itamaraty

We are all from the nations

This Brazilian culture

Pastinha has already been to Africa

To show Brazilian capoeira

[Music]

I'm already feeling sick,

To live here on Earth,

Oh mom, I'm going to the moon,

I spoke to my wife,

She then replied to me,

We will go if God wants,

Let's make a little ranch,

All full of thatch,

Tomorrow at 7 o'clock,

We're going to have coffee,

I never believed,

I can't conform,

May the Moon come to Earth,

That the Earth goes into the air,

This is all talk,

They will eat without working,

My dear friend,

Take a good look at my singing,

Whoever owns it is not jealous,

Who doesn't want to be jealous?

Iêê Galo Sang,

Iêê Cocorocou,

Iêê Minino Is A Good Friend...

Break jereba

Break everything today

Tomorrow nothing breaks

Dona Maria, what sells there?

Coconut and popcorn that is from Brazil

When I die,

Bury me in Lapinha

trousers, culottes and padded jacket

Goodbye Bahia, zum zum zum golden cord

I'm leaving because they killed my Beetle

It's zum zum zum zum!

Hey Beetle!

[Talking folder]

Many fights involving capoeiristas were not exactly their fault... Many were provoked, because sometimes people were playing, they [the police] passed by and decided to take and break the berimbaus. Then it set fire... Capoeiristas didn't want to lose their instruments. For instance the berimbau isn't just an instrument... People know the berimbau is music...

Mestre Pastinha's album - Track 3

[Talking folder]

Boy pay attention to what I'm going to say

What I do playing, you don't even do when you're angry

Don't be vain or spiteful

In the capoeira circle, Pastinha is already classified

The berimbau is music, is a musical instrument. But it's also a fighting instrument. In the happy occasions, we use it as an instrument [musical]. But in painful moments, it becomes into a scythe.

[Music]

I'm going to read B-A-Bá

B-A-Bá do Berimbau

The gourd and the caxixi

With two sticks

The coin and the wire

There's the berimbau

Berimbau is an instrument

That plays on a single string

Will play São Bento Grande

Play Angola in major key

Now I just believed

Berimbau is the biggest

Comrade

Iê Viva my God

Oh oh oh give

Dona Maria, how are you?

Play nice, I want to learn

It was me it was my homie

When we were together

I don't know if God consents

In a grave two dead

Shoo shoo my canary

My canary is a singer

Xô xô meu canário

Foi embora e me deixou

Xô xô meu canário

Meu canário é da Alemanha

Xô xô meu canário

Nego velho também apanha

Xô xô meu canário

Alemão que me mandou

Luanda ê meu boi

Luanda ê, pará

Marina samba de pé

Tereza samba deitada

Lá no cais da Bahia

Não tem le le nem la la

O la e la e la

O le le

[Pastinha talking]

I'll tell you... When I was young I used a little scythe as big as a key. The scythe had a sharp side and a ring to attach it to the bow. But as I was very kind, very lovely with those who wanted to beat me, I sharpened both sides of the scythe. If I could, I would sharpen the third side too... And when needed, I unstringed the bow, attached the scythe and handled it. Because capoeirista does ginga, jumps, [... incomprehensible 5 second part :-( ...], bleeds and defends himself. The capoeirista has the appropriate attitude to any situation, and the calmer the capoeirista, the best for him...

Mestre Pastinha's album - Track 4

[Talking folder]

I'm going to read my ABCs

Because I didn't want to sing

It was in [... Incomprehensible place name...] who gave me this place

Many masters came to play with pastinha

I'm leaving for São Paulo

I'm leaving, doctor

But I brought my berimbau

A friend of who I am

I'm not wanted here

But in my land I am

Who wants my name

Who wants to know who I am

I am a disciple of Pastinha

Boy from Salvador

Delegate summoned me

Inside the secretariat

To give testimony

What I didn't know

Iê save Bahia

Iê save Brazil

And let's go

Around the world

Go tell my lord

That the butter spilled

The butter is not mine

Butter is yo-yo

The canoe became a sailor

At the bottom of the sea there is money

[Talking folder]

Exactly the opposite, the capoeirista shouldn't be hasty. Shouldn't provoke. Shouldn't do certain things. When I was young, there were capoeiristas who walked bent as the nature didn't do them. They got a handkerchief and tied it to the neck. A white handkerchief and "bell-mouth" pants. Sandals and a bent hat, and then walked in the streets, bent. Capoeiristas did these and other kind of things it surprised at that time, but I get nowadays, with capoeiristas doing certain things...

[Music]

Goodbye goodbye,

have a good trip

I go with God

have a good trip

I'm leaving

have a good trip

With Our Lady

have a good trip

Who comes there?

It's me it's me

Who comes there?

The gate slammed

Who comes there?

Quem vem junto sou eu

Dá dá, dá no nego

No nego voce nao dá

Dá dá, dá no nego

Se não der, vai apanhar

Dá dá, dá no nego

Esse nego é malvado, esse nego é maluco, esse nego é o cão

Dá dá, dá no nego

Pega esse nego, derruba no chão

Esse nego é malvado, esse nego é o cão

Pega esse nego, derruba no chão

Esse nego é o diavo, esse nego é o cão

Pega esse nego, derruba no chão

Esse nego é maluco, esse nego é o cão

Mestre Pastinha's album - Track 5

[Pastinha talking]

I'm an example from the past. There are many veterans here, really old capoeiristas, older than me. I had a student called Aberrê. He was my student and also christened by the same person who christened me. He lived at São Francisco hill, and I lived at Monturo hill. When I left the army, I used to take him to my house, to teach him to play capoeira.

Hey

I was born for capoeira

capoeira man made me

I'll just leave capoeira

When I die

[Music]

Hey, I was at home

Without thinking without imagining

When I heard knocking on the door

Solomon sent for

To help win

The battle lead

I have never traveled

I don't even intend to travel

Between Campos[1] and Campinas[2]

Pernambuco[3] and Ceará[4]

It was me it was my homie

It was my bro it was me

I don't know if God consents

In a grave two dead

In Bahia I was born

Savior I created myself

Hey, the rooster sang

Iê cocoroco

Let's go away

He's a sycophant

Tabaréu that comes from the backlands

That sells gherkin, okra and lemon

This gunga is mine, this gunga is mine

Gunga is mine, I can't sell it

This gunga is mine, this gunga is mine

Gunga is mine, my father gave it to me

[Talking folder]

I had a friend who invited me to take care of his gambling house, and I accepted. We had to go to the sheriff to get a license to open the house. I was taken to the sheriff, and when I entered his room, my friend said. "Chief, this is the guy who will take care of the gambling house". The sheriff looked at me from hair to shoes, and said "This kid will take care of the gambling house? He's still smells like milk!". My friend then said "Yes, but I want him to do it". And the chief, again: "This kid can't take care of a gambling house!". "He is really young, but he'll fit", said my friend. The sheriff then agreed and asked for my name. I said "Vicente Ferreira Pastinha", and gave him my ID. Then he said "Then you're the brawler I have here in my neighborhood? I knew only your fame". And I said to myself: "Oh, my... Now I'm jailed".

[Music]

Adam, Adam, where is Salomé Adam?

Salome went for a walk

Adam, Adam, where is Salomé Adam?

Went to Maré Island

I'm sleeping, I'm dreaming

They're talking bad about me

There were a group of capoeiristas at [... incomprehensible place name :-( ...], all of them were Mestres. The most famous here in Bahia. Every Sunday, there were a roda there, and only Mestres played. No students, just Mestres. And Aberrê, my former student, used to play there. The Mestres asked him who was his master, and he gave my name. Then they said him "Bring this man here, we need to know him." Aberrê invited me to see him play in a sunday. When we arrived there, he looked for the leader, a police officer called Amorzinho. This guy shook my hand, and while doing this, told me to lead the wheel from then on.

Send me lecho

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