Sertão

Flávio José
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O melhor da poesia

The best of poetry

Cantada no mundo

Sung throughout the world

O melhor da beleza

The best of beauty

Pura de um luar

Pure as moonlight

Onde a natureza

Where nature

Respira profundo

Breathes deeply

No chão do sertão

On the ground of the backlands

Do meu lugar

From my place


Se chovesse

If it rained

E ficasse todinho molhado

And everything got soaked

Não tinha deixado

It wouldn't have let

Meu sertão torrar

My backlands scorch

Esse dom que o Nordeste

This gift that the Northeast

Tem desde o passado

Has since the past

Faz o nordestino

Makes the Northeasterner

Viver a cantar

Live singing


Mas com toda a riqueza desse mundo

But with all the richness of this world

Nosso povo não queria sair

Our people didn't want to leave

Padecer num sofrimento profundo

Suffering deep sorrow

Só porque nós queremos existir

Just because we want to exist


Sertão é Nordeste brasileiro

Backlands are the Brazilian Northeast

E nada queremos do estrangeiro

And we want nothing from abroad

As coisas mais nossas são beleza

The most ours are beauty

Amor, poesia e natureza

Love, poetry, and nature

É sertão!

It's the backlands!

Added by Rafael Oliveira
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau July 1, 2024
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