Pau-de-Arara [English translation]

Lot of time since here I arrived

So much I've worked, unable to comeback

I wanna put my face

In a Macaw's Perch*

I want to comeback

They said that was good

That there's money here

For whom works

I confess that I worked

I won only promises

Of Macaw's Perch

When dawns I cry

In the Asa Branca** of my sertão***

I left wife and children

Waiting for my with the feet in the ground****

I'm not complaining

My Assum Preto***** fell silent

God my land is saint

Take me away

To mine kind

I know that when I arrive

I'm going to thank if the Lord orders

Help to my Sertão

So I can stay

Never again go away

• Artist:Benito Di Paula
• Album:Desencontro (1979)