Quando Eu Contar [Iaiá] [English translation]

Yaya, oh yaya

My sweetie does not know what I know

What I saw in the places where I went

When I tell you, yaya, you will be amazed

When I tell you, yaya, you will be amazed

I saw a different kind

Robbing the people who are employed

Living on a very dangerous hill

Today someone named Skull* controls the steam

That's when the little boy

Poor young brod, met with Skull

Shook out of fear, fell on the slope

Yaya, my sweetie, died of silliness, ô yaya

I stopped by the city

Yaya my sweetie, had I known, I wouldn’t have gone

Just saw wrong doing, just saw cowardice

I don’t know how anyone can live there

When I saw the wage the poor workman gets to supports his family

I was scared, yaya, my daughter

Got back on the horse and came back to you, oh yaya

I stopped by the voodoo, went to see the gathering

I worked on my demand, sang for Calunga, and left the favors**

I payed respect to the spirits, closed my body

Yaya, I did everything right

I bowed to the saint, shaved, cleansed

Leave me alone, evil spirit

I'm blessed, I'm within the law, ô yaya