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Artist: Dorival Caymmi
Canonical path: /dorival-caymmi/desafio
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Desafio
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Desafio
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Éramos eu e um cavalo
No seu galope macio
Pulando cerca de arame
Pisando morro de pedra
Andando em leito de rio
Éramos eu e um cavalo
E era um cavalo bravio
Casco de lâmina forte
Anca de chão de montanha
Crina de vela e pavio
Ele bufando fagulha
Eu contraído de frio
Montando em pêlo barroso
Éramos eu e um cavalo
Indo de encontro ao vazio
Éramos nós e os cavalos
Feitos do mesmo feitio
Vindo de todos os lados
E sobre eles sangrentos
Seus cavaleiros sombrios
Éramos nós e os cavalos
A nos causar calafrios
Todos os outros já mortos
Por essa causa contrária
A que se chamou poderio
E eu com uma bala no peito
Meu alazão nos baixios
Caímos de cordilheira
Deixando a causa nas lendas
Pra quem quiser desafio.
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Dorival Caymmi performs "Desafio", and this lyric page sits inside the Dorival Caymmi catalog on LyroVerse.
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