Procissão [English translation]

Look, there goes passing the procession

Dragging through not even like a snake through the ground

The people in it that go on passing

Believe in the things there of the sky

The women singing, throwing verses

The men listening, throwing their hats

They live making penance here on the Earth

Awaiting what Jesus promised them

And Jesus promised a better life

For who lives in this world without love

Only after giving up the body to the ground

Only after dying here in this wilderness

I am also on the side of Jesus

Only I think that he forgot

To say that on the Earth the people need

To arrange a little way of life

Many people hoist themselves up to be God

And promise many things for the backwoods

That they'll give a dress to Maria

And they promise a farmstead to João

The year enters, the year leaves, and nothing comes

My backwoods continues neglected

But if Jesus exists in the firmament

Here on this Earth this must come to an end