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Translation

// CHORUS //

I saw my sertão catching fire

I saw rain arrive in the sertão (bis)

I saw the ground, the stick, the scythe, the axe

I saw the burning of the cleared land

I saw the people get excited

I saw the rain wetting the riverbanks

Of the rivers at their headwaters

I saw the green arrive

// CHORUS //

I saw leather-clad vaqueiros in the thickets

I saw the men milking

I heard cowbells ring

I saw women in the mortar pounding corn

Surrounded by children

All of them singing

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I saw the man from the lowlands to the mountains

Moving his earth

To plant the crops

I saw a vaqueiro aboiar leading the cattle

To the cacimba, to the cerrado

I saw the pasture sprout

I saw dams, parched clay pits

My sertão all cracked

I saw the sun punishing

And the sertanejo say: I won't move from here

I saw with misery and all

My sertão rise up

// CHORUS //

I saw the sugarcane in the mill, in the grinder

In the farmyard

I saw the people gather

I also saw the boss, the farmer

Order a sanfoneiro to come

And throw an incredible party

// CHORUS //