Mineiro Pau

I was in a grove
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Resting at noon
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

I looked up to the sky
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Saw the birds singing
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

The little bird is singing
To comfort those who cry
If it sings to console me
Little bird, go away
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

Who walks on foreign land
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Must know how to behave
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

Step on the ground slowly
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
So the earth doesn't feel it
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

My mother always said
That those who walk on strange land
Are the last to eat
Being the first to be beaten
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

I'm leaving, I'm leaving
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
I'm going to see my bluebird
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

I'm going to see my beauty
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
That I left in the backcountry
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

I'm leaving, I'm leaving
I won't be back so soon
I only come on New Year's Day
In the octave of Christmas
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)

(Hey wooden miner, wooden miner
Hey wooden miner, wooden miner
Hey wooden miner, wooden miner
Hey wooden miner, wooden miner)