Samba-Enredo 1981 - Macobeba, o Que Dá Pra Rir Dá Pra Chorar

It's so sublime to exalt
On this day of revelry
And sing the odyssey of a brave Brazilian
Against a foreign monster
Who with all his money
Wants to silence our voice (and our hero)
And our hero
Goes in the wake of evil
Through fields and cities
After the fierce grasshopper

Tetaci, Tetaci
Wraps with his cloak (repeat)
Our hero Mitavaí

Mitavaí, good farmer and cowboy
Leaves the Brazilian backlands
Goes to fight
Accursed Macobeba, who devours the bush and the myth
Radio, newspaper, and TV
He throws and with a precise strike
He wounds the monster in the neck, for real
And wounded like that to death
The bad creature doesn't want to die
And the offended countryman
Takes the path to the sea
Swearing that one day he will return
Takes from here, takes to there
What today is funny
Tomorrow can make you cry

Accursed creature, if you heard me
If you didn't like my samba (repeat)
Go far away from Brazil