Vida de Pescador

I'm going to make my little ranch
By the river just for me to fish
To escape the noise of the big city
To not stress out

There I stay hidden
I throw some crumbs to bait the well
I even forget that in the bank
I'm stuck up to my neck

Oh, how difficult
The life of a fisherman
At night he tangles the hook
In the taboca's trap
During the day he burns in the sun
Bathing the worm

I wake up at dawn
I grab my hoe and start digging
But it's to pull out worms
To catch some catfish for us to eat

Then I pull out some cassava
And throw it in the water to spoil them
To bait big fish
I do everything to not work

Oh, how difficult
The life of a fisherman
At night he tangles the hook
In the taboca's trap
During the day he burns in the sun
Bathing the worm

I'll call Anizião
A good local to cast a net
He casts a net
That needs four people to pull

One of these days by the creek
He caught with his net
Five jiripoca birds
A puma and eighteen chickens

Oh, how difficult
The life of a fisherman
At night he tangles the hook
In the taboca's trap
During the day he burns in the sun
Bathing the worm

Everything here in my little ranch
Is very simple, I tell you
It's a big feast
We catch dorado and release them twice

The small fish
We have a rod to compare
If it's not a meter and a half
We release the little ones to grow

Oh, how difficult
The life of a fisherman
At night he tangles the hook
In the taboca's trap
During the day he burns in the sun
Bathing the worm

As it gets dark
We go back to the ranch, it's time to eat
Rice with cambuquira
A country-style chicken to change it up

Then we play truco
Play some games to relax
Then we go to sleep peacefully
To go fishing again the next day

Oh, how difficult
The life of a fisherman
At night he tangles the hook
In the taboca's trap
During the day he burns in the sun
Bathing the worm