Não Foi Cabral [English translation]

Teacher, I am sorry

But now I am going to talk

This year in the school

Things are going to change

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Arrived at 22nd April

After that, he colonized

Naming Pau-Brasil*

No one brought family

Let alone children

Because they already knew

that they would kill a lot of indigenous people

Thirteen caravels

Brought a lot of death

One million of indigenous people

Died due to tuberculosis

Talking about suffering

Of the tupi and guarani people

I recalled the warrior

Quilombo Zumbi

Zumbi dos Palmares

Victim of an ambush

If it wasn't for Dandara

I would be getting lashings

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Teacher, I am sorry

But now I am going to talk

This year in the school

Things are going to change

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Arrived at 22nd April

After that, he colonized

Naming Pau-Brasil

No one brought family

Let alone children

Because they already knew

that they would kill a lot of indigenous people

Thirteen caravels

Brought a lot of death

One million of indigenous people

Died due to tuberculosis

Talking about suffering

Of the tupi and guarani people

I recalled the warrior

Quilombo** Zumbi

Zumbi dos Palmares***

Victim of an ambush

If it wasn't for Dandara****

I would be getting lashings

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Nothing against you

Don't get me wrong

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral

Who discovered Brazil

Was not Cabral