Casamiento De Negros
Milton Nascimento
Black Wedding
A wedding has been formed,
All dressed in black,
Black bride and groom,
Black in-laws and relatives,
And the priest who married them,
Was black as well.
When the party started,
They laid out the black tablecloth,
Black they’ll be when dessert comes,
They served dried figs,
And went off to bed,
Under a black sky.
And there are the two heads,
Of the black woman and the black man,
And they woke up cold,
Had to start a fire,
The girl brought charcoal,
Charcoal that’s also black.
Something's hurting the black woman,
The town doctor came by,
Prescribed a mud poultice,
But from the blackest mud,
That they gave to the black woman,
Juice from the mountain's maqui.
The black girl has died,
Poor black man is grieving,
For a hundred bucks for a coffin,
A coffin painted black,
They didn’t light a single candle,
Oh! What a black wake.
