Saga Da Amazônia [English translation]

Once upon a time in the Amazon the most beautiful forest

green woods, blue skys, the most immense forest

deep in the waters the Iaras, Caboclo legends and sorrows

and the rivers pulling the waters

Parrots, parakeets, took care of their colors

fishs sailing on the rivers, curumins filled with love

used to smile the Jurupari, uirapuru, its future

was: fauna, flora, fruits and flowers

Every forest has Caipora to guard the forest

caipora from abroad came to make the woods wither

and brought iron dragon to eat lots of wood

and brought in giant style, to finish off the capoeira

Quickly they made the project and no one witnessed

for the dragon cut the wood and all the forest overthrow:

if the forest my friend had foot to walk

I assure you, my friend, danger would not have stayed there

What is cut in seconds spend time to regenerate

and the fruit that grows in the bunch to feed us?

then there's the bird, has a nest, has the air

igarapé, downstream, has brook and this river that is a sea

But the dragon continues to devour the forest

and the ones who inhabit this forest, where will they move to?

runs Indian, rubber tapper, sloth, anteater

turtle: light foot, hustle and bustle Kamaiurá tribe

Where there was forest, today there is persecution

grileiro kills squatter just to steal his floor

sweet chestnut, rubber tree was turned into whipping-top

Besides those who have died as a migratory bird

Zé de Nâna can testify, has graves there

people buried in the ground:

Cause they killed Indian that killed grileiro that killed squatter

said one chestnut lanyard to a rubber tapper that a foreign

stole their place

Then a guitarist arriving in the region

He was so penalized that wrote this song

and perhaps desperate with so much devastation

He took the first road, without rhumb, without direction

with eyes full of water disappeared taking this heartache

within his heart

Here ends this story to valorous people

for people who have memory, a lot of belief, a lot of love

to defend what remains, without delay, without awn

It was once a forest on the equator ...

• Artist:Vital Farias
• Album:Sagas Brasileiras (1982)