Deus Lhe Pague [English translation]

For this bread to eat, for this land to sleep

The certificate to be born and the license for smile

For let me breath, for let me exist

God shall pay you

For the pleasure to cry and to carry on

For the joke in the bar and football for applaud

A crime for comment and a samba to distract

God shall pay you

For this beach, this skirt, for the women from here

the made love poorly and quickly, to shave, and go out

For the Sunday that is beautiful, soap opera, Catholic mass and comic book, God shall pay you

For the free cachaça¹ that we have to swallow

For the smoke and misfortune that we have to cough

For the hanging scaffold from where we have to fall

God shall pay you

For one more day, agony, to support and watch

For the grinding of teeth , in the city to buzz

And for the demented scream that help us to run away

God shall pay you

For the carpideira² who praises us and spits on us

And for the flies, insects which kiss and cover us

And for the final peace that will redeem us in the end

God shall pay you

• Artist:Chico Buarque
• Album:Construção (1971)