No Rancho Fundo [English translation]

In the deep hut

Way beyond the world's end

Where pain and saudade1

Tell things from the city...

In the deep hut

With a profound and sad look

A moreno2 sings his laments

With his eyes full of water

Poor moreno

That at night, in the open sky

Waits for the moon in the yard

Having a cigar as his companion

Without a wave

He grabs his guitar

And the moon, as an alm,

Comes to this moreno's lawn

In the deep hut

Way beyond the world's end

There never was any happiness

Neither at night nor at day

The orchards

Don't tell any more secrets

And the last palm tree

Has already died in the mountains

The birds

Are hibernating in the nests

So sad is this sadness

It fills nature with darkness

All due to

The moreno's fault

Who once was big, and now is small

For a sapê house3

If God knew

Of the sadness in the mountains

They would send there

All the love that exists on the Earth

Because the moreno

Lives full of saudade

All because of the poison

From the women in the city

He who was

The singer of spring

And made of the deep hut

The best sky that there is in the world

If a flower blooms

And the sun burns

The mountain cools down

And reminds him of the smell of the morena

1. Famous portuguese word, refers to the sad feeling of deeply missing something or someone. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade2. Moreno (masculine) or morena (feminine) is a dark-skinned person3. Sapê is a kind of grass that is traditionally used to make roofs for small, picturesque houses in rural Brazil.

• Artist:António Zambujo