Saudade da minha terra [English translation]

What's the use of living in the city

if happiness is not with me

Goodbye, São Paulo of my heart

I wanna come back there for my country

To look at daybreak, when birds,

when the day's dawning, start to sing

I hitch up my big doneky with satisfation

Cuttin'the way I leave, gallopping

And I listen to the cock that sings

The blackbird that sings in the jequitibà (tree)

For our Lady, my dear country

I live with the remorse of having leave you

This new life in the city here

I cried, because of so much homesickness

Here there's someone who says to love me

but it's not worthwile, I thought

I stay with pain, but this brunette

doesn't know where I lived (where I was created)

I'm here, singing, I've listening for so long

to someone who's crying, connected with radio

What a terrible homesickness of my country and of my forest

of the quite small stream that cuts the fields

where I used to go on Sundays

In the beautiful crystalline water lakes

What a sweet memory of those parties

where there were dancers and beautiful girls

I live without joy now

The world isn't good, but it teaches too

I'm upset, but not defeated

I'm well guided by divine hands

I've already sent a message to my mum

And I'm already tired of this sufference

I'm leaving this morning

for my dear land that knows me since I was born

I've already seen the cock singing in my dreams

The ignambu peeping in the dark

The silver moon lights up the way

The wet grass after the night

I need see all this there

I was born there, and it's there where I wanna die