A Noiva da Cidade [English translation]

Tutu-Marambá[1] don't come here anymore

Because the child's mother put you to death[2]

Tutu-Marambá don't come here anymore

Because the child's mother put you to death

Oh, how careless is this lady

With the window wide open

Wants to sleep with impunity

Or is it possible that the lady from up above

Doesn't hear the startle

Of our heart

Oh, how much carelessness of this lady

Because dad is in the farm

And mom went walk[3]

And all city's lads

Want to enter

In the verses of the lullaby

To become a Tutu-Marambá

Oh, how reckless is this lady

Who knows if she is dressed

Or if she sleeps gauzy

She knows very well, when she sleeps

She is stealing

Someone else sleep

Oh, how bad is this lady

And, that nobody here hear us

She knows how to bewitch

Because every city's lad

Wants to enter

In the dreams she likes to dream

And become a Tutu-Marambá

Ox, ox, ox, black face ox

Take this girl who fears grimace[4]

[1] Some kind of bogeyman from Brazilian folklore.

[2] This is a children's ditty from north region of Brazil.

[3] This two verses are another children's ditty, more common thou.

[4] Yet another children's ditty.

• Artist:Chico Buarque
• Album:Meus Caros Amigos (1976)