Pindorama

(Land in sight!)

Pindorama, Pindorama
It's Brazil before Cabral
Pindorama, Pindorama
It's so far from Portugal
It's beyond, far beyond
The meeting of sea with sky
It's beyond, far beyond
The domains of Dom Manuel

True Cross, True Cross
Who found it was Portugal
True Cross, True Cross
Behind Monte Pascoal
Right there Cabral saw
On April 22nd
Not only saw, discovered
All the land of Brazil

Pindorama, Pindorama
But the Indians were already here
Pindorama, Pindorama
They already spoke everything in Tupi
Only later, you come
Who spoke everything in Portuguese
Only later with you
Our lives changed all at once

Pero Vaz, Pero Vaz
Said in a letter to the king
That on an altar, under the cross
Our friar prayed mass
But then your Cabral
Slowly left
The tropical country
To find the Indies

To the Indies, to the Indies
But the Indies were already here
We warned: Look at the Indies!
But Cabral didn't understand Tupi
He moved to the sea
To see the Indies in another place
It went wrong, bad luck
Many ships couldn't return

But, in the end, I suspect
It wasn't just by chance
That Cabral, in a detour
Saw the land and said: Wow!
It wasn't no, it was a sending
It was an imperial plan
To dock his ships
In a monumental country

To Álvares Cabral
To King Dom Manuel
To the Indian of Brazil
And even those who heard me
I'll say, I discovered
Brazil is all in the voice
Whoever wants to listen
Pindorama is within us

To Álvares Cabral
To King Dom Manuel
To the Indian of Brazil
And even those who heard me
I'll say, come listen
It's a very subtle country
Whoever wants to discover
Only after the year 2000