Olhos de Luar [English translation]

Tião was a strong, cheerful and fearless mulatto

He was born from the love made over the earth amid the plantation

He used to took the handle of hoe and graze the cattle

Sadness was something that no one saw by his side

After the farm, he used to go to the cornershop, a glass of sugarcane liquor

He sang, played the viola and jested

The broad chest, the clear laugh, friend of the friends

He wasn't afraid of anyone, scoffed at the dangers

One day he felt on his face the boss's daughter's moonlight eyes

And a happy and sad bitter sweet entered the heart

Tião was no the same longer since he felt the gleam of that glance

For the first time he felt like crying

But the spell of the glance entered like poison

The boss's daughter's glance on his dark skinned body

Oh! That look had more light than the midday sun

The temptation was stronger, he couldn't resist

One day she came closer, a ray of hope

A man when he loves is like a child

And then he talked about everything he felt

He apologized for loving that much who he shouldn't

And a tear came from the boss’s daughter’s moonlight eyes

Her white face flushed with the strength of passion

Then heaven came to earth, when love exists everything stays the same

And love happened in the middle of the cane field

But the boss’s pride was still stronger

Honor is washed with blood, an oath of death

The fruit of that love cannot see the light of day

At night the sound of a gunshot and a body falls on the cold earth

But everything that goes around also comes around

The blood stain on the earth never fades longer

For seven years nothing else was sprout on that ground

And the night darkened the boss's eyes once and for all

But when it's moonlight night, there are some people who have ever seen amid the plantation

A black man taking a blond boy by the hand

Both of them running across the field leave a unique trail of light

A trail of a love in the middle of the cane field

A trail of a love in the middle of the cane field