Cantiga do Estradar

It's been seven times closing
That my life is to walk
Jumping the roads of the world
Day and night without stopping

I've already visited the seven kingdoms
Where I had to sing
Seven drops of poison
I swallowed without blinking

I see only harder pains
Another Christian to endure
I'm a brother of suffering
With a heavy heart full of pain

I gathered in the learning
What destiny kept
My masters were the road and the wind
Who in life taught me

I'll remember on the journey
The paths I've walked
Of those hard passages
In the places where I've been

Just thinking gives me chills
In the successes I've achieved
In my memory
Legion of the condemned

Chained in shackles
In the darkness of ignorance
Without the light of the Great King
All this I saw in my wanderings

In the times when I wandered
The foreign path
I've been back for a while
Since I left my place

This happened when I was young
When I went to search
In the illusions that are in the world
In the mist that is over there

I jumped deep into the wells
That the Devil has over there
Jesus saved me from the devil
When he tried to catch me

I've been through so many trials
There are still trials to face
I'll keep singing my verses
That I gathered on the way

In the sky I see the new moon
Company of the road
He taught us to live
Life here is just to pass by

We then invited
The evil desire and the heart
We purified ourselves to be white
Even purer

Like the cotton cap
That if not gathered, divided
Nor denied to those who asked
Our love, our good

Our land, our forgiveness
Only then we see the hidden face
Of the one who dwells in the high heavens
The Merciful, the Meek and Just

The Faithful and compassionate
Lord of the dead and the living
Our Father and our God
He said he would return

When this sinful earth
Marked by transgression
Was full of violence
Of plunder, of lies, and thieves