Lamento Sertanejo [English translation]

Because I’m from there

From the backlands, the shrubland1

Out there, in the middle of the woods

From the brush of the fields2

I barely go out

I barely have any friends

I’m barely able to stay in the city

Without living in contradiction

Because I’m from there

For sure that’s why

I don’t like soft beds

I can’t eat without pork rinds

I barely speak

I barely know anything

I’m like stray head of cattle in this crowd,

herd walking aimlessly

1. The Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil. The Cerrado biome core areas are the plateaus in the center of Brazil. The main habitat types of the Cerrado include: forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. Savanna wetlands and gallery forests are also included. The second largest of Brazil's major habitat types, after the Amazonian rainforest, the Cerrado accounts for a full 21 percent of the country's land area.2. Caatinga is a type of desert vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in interior northeastern Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation".