Bahia [English translation]

Chorus:

Bahia' s fishermen, seafarers,

Bahia's girls in the harbour,

Bahia, with all its saints,

Bahia of San Salvador...

It's where, one fine day,

started a place named Brazil,

and also its first capital..

It is where Africa still lives in exile,

and speaks the tongue of Portugal...

It's a place where men still know how to fight,

Bare-footed, handed

or with a knife,

For a beautiful mulatto's eyes,

Risking in this fight their own lives...

Chorus

I 've listened to/ Gandhi's sons' songs and rhymes,

I have seen girls dance for Chango,

It is where I have found back paradise,

At a stone's throw from Jorge Amado's.

Chorus

As I had not yet finished

my small song,

Took it away, took it along,

I'll come back one day to hum it to you

On the beach of Itapoa.

Chorus.