Saudade de Minha Terra

What good is it for me to live in the city
If happiness doesn't accompany me?
Goodbye, little person from my heart
I want to go back to my backlands
Seeing the dawn when the birds
Starting the sunrise begin to sing
With satisfaction, I saddle the horse
Cutting through the road, I start to gallop
And I listen to the cattle bellowing
The thrush singing in the jequitibá

For Our Lady, my beloved backlands
I live in regret for having left you
This new life here in the city
I have cried so much from missing you
Here is someone who says they care for me
But it's not convenient for me, I have thought
I live with sorrow, because this brunette
Doesn't know the system I was raised in
I'm here singing, listening from afar
Someone is crying with the radio on

What immense longing for the countryside and the woods
For our stream that cuts through the fields
On Sundays, I used to go for a canoe ride
In the beautiful lagoons of crystal-clear waters
What sweet memory of that big party
Where there was dancing and many girls
I live nowadays without joy
The world is harsh, but it also teaches me
I am upset, but not defeated
I am well guided by divine hands

I have already telegraphed to my dear mother
And I am tired of suffering so much
This dawn I will be leaving
For the beloved land that saw me born
I already hear, dreaming, the rooster crowing
The tinamou chirping at dusk
The silver moonlight illuminating the roads
The grass wet since nightfall
I need to go to see everything there
It was where I was born, where I want to die