A Volta da Asa Branca [English translation]

Over these last three nights

there's been lightning up north .

The white winged dove

has heard the rumbling storm

and, beating its wings,

has flown back to the Sertão

¡Oh! I´m leaving right now:

I'll take care of the crop.

The drought made me desert my native land

But, luckily, God has now remembered

to send the rain

to that long-suffering and hardy Sertão:

the Sertão, a land of honest women

and hard-working men

The rivers flow:

the waterfalls are gurgling,

the earth is damp,

the forest green. ¡What an abundance!

And the white wing dove

sings until late in the evening. ¡It's so wonderful!

Oh, the people is happy

and nature even happier.

As I hear the rain

Rosinha comes to mi mind:

she's the pretty flower

from this Sertão in Pernambuco.

And if a bad harvest

doesn't hamper my plans,

whatever may happen, Father,

I'll get married at the end of this year.