Canção do Subdesenvolvido

Underdeveloped Country Song

Brazil is a land of loves
Carpeted with flowers
Where the breeze speaks of loves
In beautiful April afternoons
Run to the southern lands
Under a sky of anil
You will find a giant lying down

Santa Cruz...today Brazil
But one day the giant woke up
Stopped being a sleeping giant
And from it a dwarf rose
It was an underdeveloped country
Underdeveloped, underdeveloped, etc. (chorus)

And after the colonial period
The country became a good backyard
And after settling the scores with Portugal
The national latifundium was established, oh!
Underdeveloped, underdeveloped (chorus)

Then the brave Brazilian people
In dangers and wars endeavored
But promising human strength
Planted cabbage, harvested bananas..
Brave effort of the Brazilian people
But I didn't see the foreign capital there
Underdeveloped, underdeveloped... etc. (chorus)

The nations of the world sent here
Their capitals so 'disinterested'
The nations, poor things, wanted to help
And that 'Old Island' didn't steal from anyone
Country of little land, only did us good
A 'big' good, a 'big' good, good, well, good
Gave us light, ah! Took gold, oh!
Gave us a train, ahhh! But took our treasure
Underdeveloped, underdeveloped... etc. (chorus)

But there came a time when they ended
The hard and suffering times
Because one day the capitals of..
Friendly countries arrived here
Developed friendly country
Friendly country, friendly country

Friend of the underdeveloped
Friendly country, friendly country
And our American friends
With much faith, with much faith
Gave us money and we planted
Only coffee!
It's a land where planting gives everything
You can plant whatever you want
But they decided we would only plant
ONLY COFFEE! ONLY COFFEE!

Bento who is a blessed friar - friar!
In the mouth of the oven - oven!
Take out a cake - cake!
Will you do everything your master commands?
We will all do, we will all do...

They started to sell us and buy us
Buy rubber - sell tires
Buy wood - sell ships
For our sail - sell wick
They only sent what was left from there
Plastic material,
How enthusiastic
How elastic thing,
How drastic thing
Rock-ballad, cowboy movie
Air conditioning and ball gum
And coca-cola...!
Underdeveloped, underdeveloped... etc. (chorus)

The Brazilian people have personality
Not easily impressed
Although they think like Americans
Although they dance like Americans
Although they sing like Americans
There, there, la, la, la, la
Hey, hey, my ox
Hey, good pasture
The best of my backcountry, thu, thu, thu
They ate the ox...

The Brazilian people although they think, dance and sing
like Americans
Don't eat like Americans
Don't drink like Americans
Live less, suffer more
This is very important
Much more than important
Because it differentiates Brazilians from others
Personality, personality
Unmatched personality
However... underdeveloped, underdeveloped
And that's the national life!