Madeira Boa (charm)

I'll wait for the moon to come back
I want to enter the forest
I'll take good wood
To make my berimbau

I'll wait for the moon to come back
I want to enter the forest
I'll take good wood
To make my berimbau

Good wood is like friendship
But it's hard to find
I keep friendship in my heart
And from the wood I'll make my berimbau

If Mestre Bimba were here
To teach me how to choose wood
I would now enter the forest
I would take Ipê and Pau Pereira

Night comes, I enter the forest
Moonlight shines, I'll search
Jequitibá and maçaranduba
I should find guatambu

In old Africa, Ungo was used
In the great religious festivals
Kingenge is an Umbundu dialect
It's the berimbau that conquered the world

On the full moon I'll harvest the fruits
and on the waning moon I'll take the wood
I'll go to make my berimbau
I'll go to play in capoeira