Balaio de Café
Oi, nego pego balaio de café
Oi, nego leva o filho e a mulher
Oi, nego pego balaio de café
Oi, nego leva o filho e a mulher
Chico mineiro vivia no seu terreiro a cantar
O dia inteiro canto de lamentação
Do sofrimento que passava na senzala
Como trabalhava o nego no tempo da escravidão
Oi, nego pego balaio de café
Oi, nego leva o filho e a mulher
Oi, nego pego balaio de café
Oi, nego leva o filho e a mulher
Chico escutava no som do seu berimbau
Cada cana que caia dentro do canavial
Calça rasgada sofrimento o dia inteiro tratado como
Animal dentro do navio negreiro
Oi, nego pego balaio de café
Oi, nego leva o filho e a mulher
Oi, nego pego balaio de café
Oi, nego leva o filho e a mulher
Coffee Basket
Hey, man carrying a coffee basket
Hey, man takes his son and wife
Hey, man carrying a coffee basket
Hey, man takes his son and wife
Chico miner lived in his yard singing
All day long a song of lamentation
About the suffering he went through in the slave quarters
How the man worked during the time of slavery
Hey, man carrying a coffee basket
Hey, man takes his son and wife
Hey, man carrying a coffee basket
Hey, man takes his son and wife
Chico listened to the sound of his berimbau
Every cane that fell in the sugarcane field
Torn pants, suffering all day treated like
An animal inside the slave ship
Hey, man carrying a coffee basket
Hey, man takes his son and wife
Hey, man carrying a coffee basket
Hey, man takes his son and wife