Vai Passar [English translation]

On this avenue a popular

Will pass

Each parallelepiped

Of this city

Will get a shiver

Tonight

When they remember

That here immortal sambas have already passed

That here they bled from our feet

That here is the place where our ancestors did samba

In a moment

An unhappy page of our history

A passage that is faded in the memory

Of the new generations

Our homeland slept

So distracted

Without noticing that it was being subtracted

In sinister transactions

Her children

Were mistaken blindly around the continent

They were stoned like penitents

Building strange cathedrals

And someday, at last

They were allowed a fleeting joy

A breathless epidemic

That was called carnaval

Carnaval, carnaval

(Will pass)

Applause the wing of the famished barons

The number of the coloured Napoleons

And the small people of the boulevard

My God, come look

Come look closely a city singing

The evolution of freedom

Until the day gets clear

Oh, such a good life, olerê

Oh, such a good life, olará

The flag of the sanatorium

It will pass

Oh, such a good life, olerê

Oh, such a good life, olará

The flag of the sanatorium

It will pass

• Artist:Chico Buarque
• Album:Chico Buarque (1984)