Purificar o Subaé Lyrics Translation in English

Caetano Veloso
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Portuguese Lyrics

English Translation

Purificar o Subaé

Purify the Subaé

Mandar os malditos embora

Send the cursed ones away

Dona d'água doce quem é?

Sweet water lady, who are you?

Dourada rainha senhora

Golden queen, mistress

Amparo do Sergimirim

Shelter of Sergimirim

Rosário dos filtros da aquária

Rosary of aquaria filters

Dos rios que deságuam em mim

From the rivers that pour into me

Nascente primária

Primary source

Os riscos que corre essa gente morena

The risks that this dark-skinned people run

O horror de um progresso vazio

The horror of an empty progress

Matando os mariscos e os peixes do rio

Killing the shellfish and the fish of the river

Enchendo o meu canto

Filling my song

De raiva e de pena

With anger and sorrow

Added by Mariana Fernandes
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 14, 2024
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