Opereta do Casamento

Not quite elsewhere and long ago
It was such an event
The nuptial consecration
The bride came with a choker
Casket and lace
Diadem and twist

But if there was any embarrassment
The girl took a wrong step
What horror and disdain
She would end up in the convent
Sleeping in the open air
Or lying on the train tracks

The bride's flag of modesty
After the first night
Unfurled in the sun
Her scarlet virtue
Like a tomato coat of arms
Ennobling the sheet

But if there was no such stain
Another wider stain
Was hidden behind
And the boy paid for the failure
With the father-in-law's vendetta
Or with the malice of mortals

'Oh my father, oh my father, please
Condemn our love
Of languor and lust!
But spare, oh my father
Our son
From the Lord's fury!'

The boy was born in a hurry
Not even a month of marriage
Had the one who bore him
When the father fell into hell
It was in the mother's arms
That he clung

When the mother fell in the gutter
He followed the operetta
On the grandfather's lap
When the grandfather fell from the horse
He cried during the break
And another act began

Clown, chorus girl
Trapeze artist, dancer
Conductor, curtain
It's faith in the flute and foot on the track