Debaixo da Saia Dela [English translation]

Underneath her skirt

There's a jacaranda tree

There's some inga fruit, boy

There are windows for the whole world, boy

Underneath her skirt

There's a tan-tan and a tambourine

The beauty of Portinari's paintings

The certainty of hapinness

Saturday morning I walked down the slope

And saw the boy, looking like a wax doll

In love, flustered

He set up a shed on that corner

The first time the girl passed by

She bought a popsicle from his cart

This poor boy put down roots there

Not moving even to go to the bathroom

Eyes wide open, waiting for the girl

Body like slinks, clothes all unstraightened

Waiting for the girl to cross the corner

Unmovable, becoming mosquito food

The long skirt she was wearing

Fascinated him, and he asked me

'Hey, ma'am, what does she carry

Underneath that skirt, so carefully?'

I called his father, I called his mother

No one could take that boy away from there

I called his father, I called his mother

No one could take that boy away from there

Eyes wide open, waiting for the girl

Body like slinks, clothes all unstraightened

Waiting for the girl to cross the corner

Unmovable, becoming mosquito food

The long skirt she was wearing

Fascinated him, and he asked me

'Hey, ma'am, what does she carry

Underneath that skirt, so carefully?'

Eyes wide open, waiting for the girl

Body like slinks, clothes all unstraightened

Waiting for the girl to cross the corner

Unmovable, becoming mosquito food

The long skirt she was wearing

Fascinated him, and he asked me

'Hey, ma'am, what does she carry

Underneath that skirt, so carefully?'

And I said

'Underneath her skirt

There's a jacaranda tree

There's some inga fruit, boy

There are windows for the whole world, boy

Underneath her skirt

There's a tan-tan and a tambourine

The beauty of Portinari's paintings

The certainty of hapinness'

I called his father, I called his mother

No one could take that boy away from there

I called his father, I called his mother

No one could take that boy away from there