Saudade de Minha Terra

What good is it for me to live in the city
If happiness doesn't come with me
Goodbye, little person from my heart
Back to my countryside, I want to return
To see the dawn, when the birds
Making the morning, begin to sing
With satisfaction, I saddle the ox
Cutting the road, I start to gallop
And I listen to the cattle bellowing
The thrush singing in the jequitibá

By our lady,
My beloved countryside
I regret living
This new life here in the city
With so much longing, I have cried
Here someone says
That they care for me
But it's not convenient for me
I have thought
I feel sorry, but this brunette
Doesn't know the system I was raised in
I'm here singing, listening from afar
Someone is crying
With the radio on

Such immense longing for
The countryside and the woods
For the gentle stream that
Cuts through the fields
On Sundays, I used to go canoeing
In the beautiful lagoons of crystal-clear waters
What sweet memory
Of those celebrations
Where there were dances and beautiful girls
I live nowadays without joy
The world is harsh, but it also teaches
I'm upset, but not defeated
I am well guided by
Divine hands

I've already telegraphed my dear mother
And 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 at dusk
The silver moonlight illuminating the roads
The grass wet since nightfall
I need to go to see everything there
It was where I was born, where I want to die