Composer: Marinalva
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Meu povo pediu pra chover
Mais a chuva pedida aqui não chegou
O gado ta todo morrendo
Ta tudo sofrendo, meu Deus que horror
Mandacaru já virou pó
Nordestino sofre e chora, seu moço
Chega a fazer dó
Essa gente precisa ter
Saúde e educação
Falta água, não vem chuva
Pra vingar a plantação
Tem tanto caboclo rezando
Olhando o céu sem chover
E não vem um pingo d'água
Pra molhar o meu sofrer
Eita que seca malvada
Racha a alma na terra até
Mais enquanto a chuva não chega
Nordestino morre de fé
Translation
My people asked for rain
But the requested rain didn't arrive here
The cattle are all dying
Everything is suffering, my God, what horror
The mandacaru has already turned to dust
The northeasterner suffers and cries, sir
It's enough to make you feel sorry
These people need to have
Health and education
There's a lack of water, no rain comes
To avenge the planting
There are so many peasants praying
Looking at the sky without rain
And not a drop of water comes
To wet my suffering
Oh, what a wicked drought
It cracks the soul in the earth until
But while the rain doesn't arrive
The northeasterner dies of faith
