lyrics to Escravos de Jo

[Egidio Leitao]

In article <peiffer-2301...@192.124.34.194>,
pei...@chapel.fcasd.edu (CJPeiffer) wrote:

> For an international week project at the middle school where I teach,
> another teacher and I (we both lived in Brazil at different times) want to
> teach the 6th graders to play the game to the song "Escravos de Jo". We
> remember the game and sort of got the lyrics, but she remembers it a
> little differently than I do.

Hmm, can I still remember those words?

Escravos de Jo'
Jogavam caxanga'
Tira, bota, deixa o camele^ (?) ficar
Guerreiro com guerreiro
Tique tique tique ta' (?)

The (?) indicate words/verse that I'm not sure of. You know, as children
we were not required to write out these songs. We simply sang them...
;-{)

--
* * Egidio Leitao (Austin, TX)
* egi...@mail.utexas.edu http://www.pe.utexas.edu/~eleitao/

[Stefan William Sittig]

In article <egidio-2301...@slip-50-3.ots.utexas.edu>,

Having been a child in Brazil I remember it like this:
Escravos de Jo/Jogavam caxanga/tira, bota, deixa o Ze Pere ficar
Guerreiros com guerreiros fazem
zigue zigue zag.

I'm positive about the last line and the third line. I'm not sure if it's
"Ze Pere" but I KNOW its not CAMELE like you had it.

stefan
(carioca da gema)

[Brazilnews]

In article <egidio-2301...@slip-50-3.ots.utexas.edu>,
egi...@mail.utexas.edu (Egidio Leitao) writes:

>Escravos de Jo'
>Jogavam caxanga'
>Tira, bota, deixa o camele^ (?) ficar
>Guerreiro com guerreiro
>Tique tique tique ta' (?)

Deixa o zabele^ ficar
Guerreiros com guerreiros
Fazem zigue zigue za'

[Kevin Martin]

In article <4e5de2$r...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
brazi...@aol.com (Brazilnews) seemed to say:

> In article <egidio-2301...@slip-50-3.ots.utexas.edu>,
> egi...@mail.utexas.edu (Egidio Leitao) writes:
>
> >Escravos de Jo'
> >Jogavam caxanga'

> Deixa o zabele^ ficar
> Guerreiros com guerreiros
> Fazem zigue zigue za'

Wait a minute, *now* I recognize that! Astrud Gilberto recorded it.
And I had no idea at the time that it was a Brazilian equivalent of
"Ring Around the Rosey".

--
Kevin Martin <can...@nic.com>

[HeggieB]

Guerreros de Jo
Jogavam Caixangar
Tira, bota, deixe ficar
Guerreros com Guerreros fazem
zigue-zigue-za

This is how it was sung in the northeast, mid-70's, anyway - not sure on
the spelling, but the words are right.

[sil...@musicm.mcgill.ca]

> egi...@mail.utexas.edu (Egidio Leitao) writes:

> Escravos de Jo'
> Jogavam caxanga'

> Tira, bota, deixa o camele^ (?) ficar

Tira, bota, deixa o Ze' Pereira que se va'

> Guerreiro com guerreiro
> Tique tique tique ta' (?)

Fazem zig zig za

Silvino