Sabor de Burrice [English translation]

See what a beauty

in so many colors

see what a beauty

in so many flavors

the stupidity is on the table

taught in the schools

universities and mainly

in the academies of laurels and of letters

it is present

and it has already been, with many honors

given a Honoris Causa PhD

it doesn't have prejudice or ideology

it walks in the left, and in the right1

it doesn't have time, doesn't chose cause

and rejects nothing

see what a beauty

in so many colors

see what a beauty

in so many flavors

the stupidity is on the table

refined, polyglot

it is transmitted by newspapers and radios

but the consagration

came with the advent of the television

it's beauty's friend

ugly people have no rights

conferring rhymes with faithful constancy

you bring in custody

all the "grammaring"2 regency

of the Portuguese language

eternal defender

1. He refers to political left and right wings2. There's a neologism here in the Portuguese version. This was the best I could do to translate it

• Artist:Tom Zé
• Album:Grande Liquidação