Carcará [English translation]

"Glory to God Lord on the highest

And long live I of bitterness

In the land of my lord."

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará!

It won't die of hunger

Carcará!

More courage then men

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará!

There, in the hinterland..

It's an animal that flies like a plane

It's an evil bird

With a curved beak like a hawk

Carcará

When it sees burnt plane

It goes flying, singing

Carcará

It's going to hunt

Carcará...

It even eats burnt snake

When the winter comes

In the hinterland there isn't anymore burnt planes

Even so Carcará does not starve

The lowland newborn donkeys

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará!

It won't die of hunger

Carcará!

More courage then men

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará is evil, a bully

It's the eagle of my hinterland

The new donkeys can't even walk

It pulls on it's beak until dead

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará!

It won't die of hunger

Carcará!

More courage then men

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará

"In 1950, more than two million Northeasterners leaved outside of their home states. 10% of the population of Ceará emigrated. 13% of Piauí! 15% of Bahia!! 17% of Alagoas!!!"

(Carcará...Carcará...Carcará...Carcará...Carcará...Carcará...)

Catch, kill and eat

Carcará!

It won't die of hunger

Carcará!

More courage then men

Carcará!

Catch, kill and eat!!

• Artist:Maria Bethânia
• Album:Carcará (1965)