Vida Boa [English translation]

I live in a place

In a modest house in Sertao

with low fire on the stove, a wood stove ai ai

I have everything I need here

Some milk cows, a good donkey

A piece of river, a guitar and some chicken ai ai

I have some fruit and flower trees in the backyard

And for love, I sowed someone in my heart (I sowed someone)

Chorus

What a good life

What a good life

A frog dove into the lake

It's simply me, on the way to my sertão

From time to time I go

to the market of the village to buy…

cooking salt, clove and other things in need

[and] marvada pinga

I take my donkey with me

and I raise up the dust through the road

Any sadness that I might carry

won't pass far beyond the mata-burro ai ai

I go riding on the way

After the road's bent, there is someone

whom I always call "my love"

and that is waiting for me