Santinho do Pau-Oco

With me it's a machete in the stump, a marble inside the mouth
I'm coming from the border, a womanizer and a scoundrel
I'm the hollow stick saint

When I was a kid, a sacristan, I already stole wine and bread
Just because of beer, they excommunicated me from the church
With holy water and a machete
I'm from the coast of Uruguay where the sapucay echoes
Still a kid in alpargatas, I stole the silver knife
And a girl from my father

I grew up doing odd jobs, I'm thick-headed
And when the guard came wanting to take flour
I was pretending to be crazy
Being a womanizer is my vice because I'm a cousin of Aparício
I fight only if it's with fists and I only pretend to be crazy
To stay in the asylum