Estrada Vermelha Lyrics Translation in English

Rubinho do Vale
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Portuguese Lyrics

English Translation

Eu vejo meu povo descalço

I see my barefoot people

Seguindo a estrada vermelha

Following the red road

Mordendo a mordaça do laço, melaço

Biting the gag of the lasso, molasses

Babando no barro de telha

Drooling in the mud of tiles


Meu povo pisando o cascalho

My people stepping on gravel

Fugindo daquele curral

Running away from that corral

Parece perdido espantalho, no atalho

Seems lost scarecrow, on the shortcut

Cercado no próprio quintal

Enclosed in their own backyard


Meu povo é ave ferida

My people are wounded birds

Vagando lá no arraial

Wandering in the camp

Expulso da casa da vida, vazia

Expelled from the house of life, empty

Fatia da terra natal

Slice of the homeland


Meu povo seguindo o caminho

My people following the path

Escrito no santo missal

Written in the holy missal

Caminho de pedra de pedra de ponta

Path of stone, stone tip

Um dia desponta num ponto final

One day dawns at a final point


Meu povo buscando a cidade,

My people seeking the city

Boiada na estrada fatal

Cattle on the fatal road

Cercada, tangida, pisada e marcada

Surrounded, driven, stepped on and marked

Com espinhos do roseiral

With thorns from the rose garden


Na estrada vermelha do tempo

In the red road of time

Adeus é lençol no varal

Goodbye is a sheet on the clothesline

Meu povo dançando no vento da sorte

My people dancing in the wind of fate

Da morte do medo e do mal

Of death, fear, and evil

Added by Eduardo Oliveira
São Luís, Brazil October 21, 2024
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