Tico-tico No Fubá [English translation]

And the sparrow alone, and the sparrow there

It's eating all, all my corn meal

Look, Mr. Nicolau

That the corn meal is gone

I grab my rifle***

And the shot goes

Then I'm sorry for the habdabs I caused him****,

And I give him a gourd plenty with corn meal

And joyful now, flying and hooting

My corn meal, my corn meal

Jumping here and there

But one day I heard that he didn't come back

His tasteful corn meal was taken by the wind

I was sad, almost crying, but then I saw

Soon after, it wasn't one, but two

I want to tell you quietly their life

They had a nest, and then, puppies

All of them now jumping and hopping here

Eating all my corn meal

Jumping here and there