Saudade de Minha Terra

What good is it for me to live in the city?
If happiness doesn't come with me
Goodbye, little one from São Paulo in my heart
I want to go back to my backcountry
Seeing the early mornings, when the birds
Making the dawn start to sing
With satisfaction, I saddle up the horse
Cutting through the road, I start to gallop
And I keep listening to the cattle bellowing
The thrush singing in the Jequitibá

By our lady, my beloved backcountry
I live regretting having left you
This new life here in the city
With so much longing, I have cried
There's someone here, saying they care for me
But it's not convenient for me, I have thought
I feel sorry, but this brunette
Doesn't know the way I was raised
I'm here singing, listening from afar
Someone is crying with the radio on

What immense longing for the countryside and the woods
For the gentle stream that cuts through the meadow
On Sundays, I used to go for a canoe ride
In the beautiful lagoons of crystal-clear waters
What sweet memory of those parties
Where there were dances and beautiful girls
I live nowadays without joy
The world mistreats, but also teaches
I'm upset, but not defeated
I am well guided by divine hands

I already telegraphed to my dear mother
That I'm tired of suffering so much
This dawn, I'll be leaving
For the beloved land that saw me born
I already hear, dreaming, the rooster crowing
The tinamou chirping as it gets dark
The silver moonlight illuminating the road
The grass wet since nightfall
I need to go to see everything there
It's where I was born, where I want to die