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Vamos Vadiar Angola

🇧🇷 Portuguese

Vamos vadiar Angola

Angola vamos vadiar

Daqui pra li, de lá pra cá,

De cá pra lá, vamos vadiar

🇨🇦 English

Let’s play around Angola

Angola let’s play around

From here to there, from there to here

From there to there, let’s play around

Video

Type

Corridos

Difficulty

Iniciante

Rhythms

São Bento Pequeno
São Bento Grande

History

The word vadiar comes up a lot in capoeira music and doesn't have a perfect English counterpart. In capoeira it refers to the style and manner of playing and to the roda itself. It loosely translates to fiddling around, loafing about, or wasting time. It isn't used in a negative connotation however- it's more to say "play around" or "goof off".