As-Água [English translation]

With the month of June everyone’s in their kitchen garden

Spade in hand, preparing the soil to sow maize later

Those who are more persistant when they finish it

They stay in the garden and try to sow with the dry soil

The schoolchildren are on vocation

But they aren’t resting, they’re in the field

Keeping an eye on the sowing

Chasing away the guinea-fowl who want to peck at the maize

In the month of August comes the rain

The people return to sow maize

Some time later comes the sprouting

The children are there again chasing away the sparrows

As grass appears people begin to hope

they start waiting for the rain to come

But the sun is relentless

No more rain comes, the plants die

The people grieve

As they wait for puddles to form again

The people grieve

As they wait...

But the sun is relentless

No more rain comes, the plants die