Histórias Para Ninar Gente Grande [English translation]

Brazil, my man

Let me tell you

The story not told by history

The same place turned inside out

It's in resistance that we meet

Brazil, my love

Mangueira is here

With verses erased by the book

Since 1500

There's more invasion than discoveries1

Behind the hero in the portrait

There's dark blood

Women, tamoios2 and mulattoes3

I want a country that is not on the picture

Brazil, your name is Dandara4

You've got cariri looks5

It didn't come from the sky

Or from the hands of the Princess6

Freedom is a dragon in the Aracati7 sea

Hail the caboclos8 of July

Who was of steel in the years of lead9

Brazil, the time has come

To listen to all the Marias, Mahins10, Marielles11, and malês12

Mangueira, shake the dust off of the basements

And clear the way for the heroes of your sheds

It's from Brazil that you make a country of Lecis13 and Jamelãos14

The crowds are all green and pink15

Mangueira, shake the dust off of the basements

And clear the way for the heroes of your sheds

It's from Brazil that you make a country of Lecis13 and Jamelãos14

Of Lecis13 and Jamelãos14

Of Lecis13 and Jamelãos14

Of Lecis13 and Jamelãos14

1. There are people who think that Brazil was not discovered for there were people here before the Portuguese. Translator side note: I agree with them.2. An indigenous ethnicity3. People of mixed race4. She was the wife of Zumbi dos Palmares and a black warrior from Colonial Brazil5. It means that the country looks like a member of the cariri ethnicity. Said denomination is also used to refer to the language family used by this group of people6. Isabel of Brazil signed the Lei Áurea (Golden Law) and set all slaves free7. A town in the state of Ceará8. Person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry9. Reference to the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 198510. Luísa Mahin was a historical figure. She was a former slave who supposedly took part in popular rebellion and the mother of Luís Gama11. Marielle Franco was a city councilor who was shot to death in 2018 in what seems to be a witness elimination12. Black slaves who knew how to read and speak Arabic, often being more cultured than their masters13. a. b. c. d. e. Leci Brandão is a Brazilian singer14. a. b. c. d. e. Jamelão was one of the most famous samba singers15. The colors of Estação Primeira de Mangueira