Folguedo Brasileiro

It's the love of this brave people
Who live my ox-bumbá
My cloth ox

It's the love of this brave people
Who live my ox-bumbá
My cloth ox

My ox is of race, valiant
King of this place
Toy of Saint John
Creation of a glory of faith

My ox is of tradition
It's the pride of the lowlands of my São José
Pindaré ox
My ox is of tradition
It's the pride of the lowlands of my São José
Pindaré ox

Bumba my ox
My orchestra ox
My ox dances
Calema ox, matraca ox
Promise ox
It's from the white, the black
The Indian

From Parintins the first
Guaranteed ox is revelry and magic
Of Brazilian folklore

There's father Francisco
There's mother catirina
There's compadre gazumbá
There's the master and the young lady
There's a shaman to resurrect the ox