Rapunzel [English translation]

Love your honey breedings1

Rapunzel, Rapunzel

There at the Borel corridor2

Rapunzel, Rapunzel

Over at the shed there's quietness

I go by early, I go by early

And I yell loudly in the hubbub3

And I turn over us4 a huge love

Juliet and Romeo love

Just like mine and yours

In the calendar flower and walks

Naked on the balcony

And I scan the basil's hole5

And I turn over us a huge love

Let's go to the slope

Let's go to the pond

1. There's a nice wordplay in the original with "tranças" ("braids", as in Rapunzel's braids) and "transas" ("sexual breeding"); I tried to keep the wordplay in the translation2. This references one of two parts of Bahia, never confirmed by the composers which one; it's also a favela in Rio; "Borel" is a slang for "cool"3. "Grão", although it's more commonly used as "grain", can also mean "great", as in this case, a loud yell; "bololô" is an almost unused slang, more common in the state of Bahia, and it means "mess", "hassle"; I chose to go by "hubbub" since it's another uncommon word in English with the same meaning and it also features alliteration.4. "Verso" is another one of the many hard words to translate in this song; it can mean "verse", "I turn", "I teach" and "I pour".5. I can't take much of the credit for translating this part; much of the hard work of decoding its meaning is in the comments for the other translation; but in short, "brocotó", among many meanings, can be "hole" and "ti-ioiô" is the same as "quioiô", "tio ioiô", "tioiô", "alfavaca" and "manjericão", all names for "basil"; now, you can say that basils don't have holes... well, they do when it's figurative for vaginas. No, this metaphor isn't common in Brazil, but it's not common to vaginas to taste like Pepsi either and Lana Del Rey did it anyway.

• Artist:Daniela Mercury
• Album:Feijão Com Arroz