Saga de Um Vaqueiro

I'll ask for permission to tell my story
Like a cowboy has his losses and his glories
Even being strong, the heart is like a child
Who loves and cries inside, and follows his destiny

From an early age, I took on my passion
To be a cowboy and be a champion
In rodeos, I was always a fighter
I earned respect for being a winner

From the stands, a brunette applauded me
Her long hair, black eyes, she smiled
I lost a bull that day on the track
But a great love arose in my life

That day my dilemma began
In love with that brunette
Every bull I knocked down, she applauded
And I, all proud, smiled

So we started a passionate relationship
She lived on the back of my horse
My plans were already set in my heart
To have her as my wife when asking for her hand

What sadness shook my heart
When her father denied me her hand
He despised me for being a cowboy
For his daughter, he only wanted a farmer

We met always in secret
And lived that forbidden love
Each new encounter was always dangerous
But our love was so sweet

We decided to run away to other rodeos
We would go on
We set a place to meet
But she wasn't there at the appointed time

I returned galloping, cutting through the wind
As if searching for a heifer in the open
And everything in me cried inside
And everything in me cried inside

They told me they sent her far away
Where the wind hides, the sound of the horn fades
A fruit of our love she was waiting for

I was desperate with such cruelty
I thought of causing harm, but I held back
And I left the world, a hurt cowboy
Just because one day I loved

Many years passed, and I traveled the world
From rodeo to rodeo, always traveling
I was a great cowboy, but my heart continued to suffer

One day I was invited to a rodeo
In that region
I thought about not going back there, but a good cowboy
Can never falter

I never knew anything about what was happening there
I fled from my pain and agony
Being always a champion was my joy

After seventeen years, I prepared to return
Like a champion
I wanted that prize to cleanse my heart
But I knew there was a great cowboy there

The rodeo began in a fierce competition
I knocked down the bull, he did too
I entered the arena, and he was there

I was impressed by how brave he was
So young and so strong and so persistent
I knocked down the bull and he was always ahead

The big moment came to take the first place
The bulls were stronger, he wouldn't knock them down
And I smiled to myself: This time I will win

As I prepared to enter the arena
When I looked to the side, my vision almost darkened
When I saw a woman, the one who was my life

I held onto my horse not to fall
I trembled, I got nervous when I saw her
Wiping and hugging the cowboy right there

I entered the arena like a madman, the outrider noticed
I went far from the bull, ah, that never happened

The cowboy entered the arena and I watched
She waved, she applauded, and he knocked down the bull
He knocked down the bull in the zone, won the first place

I was devastated, ashamed I was
I lost the grand prize, that I didn't even care
But to lose that love, ah, I couldn't accept

She came smiling towards me
And brought the cowboy holding her hand
She looked into my eyes, spoke attentively

This is our son, whom you didn't know
He always wanted to be a cowboy, like you, a champion
And for the first time, he wants your blessing

I cried, with happiness
Embraced, with my son
A cowboy, like me
I had never seen
I can confess, the greatest prize
God gave me