Batuques do Meu Lugar

Drums and accordion
I played down in Ceará
Congo and catira
I danced over in Mossoró
Fandangos, caboclinhos
In Pará, the carimbó
Bata in the baticum
Gave a bump and the bull bumbá

The blessing in Bahia
With the axé of the afoxé
Rojão maculelê
Samba de roda and candomblé
I swayed in the xote
And xaxado in the backlands
In the reggae with accordion
That comes from Maranhão

Seresta in BH
Quimombo of siriri
Chamamé, catopé
Cacuria is Cacui
A thousand things I lived
Like samba, I've never seen

Surdo and pandeiro
With ganzá and tamborim
The power of the beat
Of this sound touched me
The great apotheosis
Of the terreiro enchanted me
Family heritage
Comes from grandpa, from my grandpa
Clap your hands to exalt
Mr. Zé, Iaô
The peace of Obatalá
Drums of Xangô
The masters of the place
Bow down to the king Samba

Surdo and pandeiro
With ganzá and tamborim
The power of the beat
Of this sound touched me
The great apotheosis
Of the terreiro enchanted me
Family heritage
Comes from grandpa, from my grandpa
Clap your hands to exalt
Mr. Zé, Iaô
The peace of Obatalá
Drums of Xangô
The masters of the place
Bow down to the king samba
The masters of the place
Bow down to the king samba
The masters of the place
Bow down to the king samba

The king samba
The king samba
The king samba