Retumbar do Meu Tambor
Rogê
The Beat of My Drum
Comes from Angola and Guinea
From Congo and Dahomey
The beat of my drum
Comes from the spirits of Mali
From the drums of Ashanti
My explosive song
I’m cumbia, I’m mambo, I’m lundu
Guaguancó, carimbó, maracatu
I’m everything Africa sent and I’ll go
With my inquices and orixás
Walking the path of peace
Beating my drum
In Haiti, I’m the priest of my vodou
Dambalá in Salvador at the Olodum rhythm
In New Orleans, the black with blue eyes
Crying the guitar a blues
That the Mississippi taught me
Strong and steady in any tide
Resistance and I have the energy of the beat of my drum
Beat drum, beat
Macumba and candomblé
Beat jongo and calango in the ijexá of afoxé
Beat drum, beat
Macumba and candomblé
Beat jongo and calango in the ijexá of afoxé
