Once upon a time in the Amazon the most beautiful forest
green woods, blue skys, the most immense forest
deep in the waters the Iaras, Caboclo legends and sorrows
and the rivers pulling the waters
Parrots, parakeets, took care of their colors
fishs sailing on the rivers, curumins filled with love
used to smile the Jurupari, uirapuru, its future
was: fauna, flora, fruits and flowers
Every forest has Caipora to guard the forest
caipora from abroad came to make the woods wither
and brought iron dragon to eat lots of wood
and brought in giant style, to finish off the capoeira
Quickly they made the project and no one witnessed
for the dragon cut the wood and all the forest overthrow:
if the forest my friend had foot to walk
I assure you, my friend, danger would not have stayed there
What is cut in seconds spend time to regenerate
and the fruit that grows in the bunch to feed us?
then there's the bird, has a nest, has the air
igarapé, downstream, has brook and this river that is a sea
But the dragon continues to devour the forest
and the ones who inhabit this forest, where will they move to?
runs Indian, rubber tapper, sloth, anteater
turtle: light foot, hustle and bustle Kamaiurá tribe
Where there was forest, today there is persecution
grileiro kills squatter just to steal his floor
sweet chestnut, rubber tree was turned into whipping-top
Besides those who have died as a migratory bird
Zé de Nâna can testify, has graves there
people buried in the ground:
Cause they killed Indian that killed grileiro that killed squatter
said one chestnut lanyard to a rubber tapper that a foreign
stole their place
Then a guitarist arriving in the region
He was so penalized that wrote this song
and perhaps desperate with so much devastation
He took the first road, without rhumb, without direction
with eyes full of water disappeared taking this heartache
within his heart
Here ends this story to valorous people
for people who have memory, a lot of belief, a lot of love
to defend what remains, without delay, without awn
It was once a forest on the equator ...