Mineiro Pau
Eu tava num arvoredo
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Ao meio-dia descansando
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Botei o zóio pro céu
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Vi os pássaro cantando
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Passarinha está cantando
Para alívio de quem chora
Se cantar pra consolar-me
Passarinho vai-te embora
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Quem andar em terra alheia
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Saiba bem se conduzir
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Pise no chão devagar
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Que é pra terra não sentir
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Minha mãe sempre dizia
Que quem anda em terra estranha
É o derradeiro que come
Sendo o primeiro que apanha
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Vou-me embora, vou-me embora
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Eu vou ver meu azulão
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Eu vou ver minha beleza
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Que deixei lá no sertão
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Vou-me embora, vou-me embora
Não tão cedo eu venho cá
Só venho Dia de Ano
Nas oitava do Natá
(Mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
(Oi mineiro pau, mineiro pau
Oi mineiro pau, mineiro pau
Oi mineiro pau, mineiro pau
Oi mineiro pau, mineiro pau)
Wooden Miner
I was in a grove
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Resting at noon
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
I looked up to the sky
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Saw the birds singing
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
The little bird is singing
To comfort those who cry
If it sings to console me
Little bird, go away
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Who walks on foreign land
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Must know how to behave
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
Step on the ground slowly
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
So the earth doesn't feel it
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
My mother always said
That those who walk on strange land
Are the last to eat
Being the first to be beaten
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
I'm leaving, I'm leaving
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
I'm going to see my bluebird
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
I'm going to see my beauty
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
That I left in the backcountry
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
I'm leaving, I'm leaving
I won't be back so soon
I only come on New Year's Day
In the octave of Christmas
(Wooden miner, wooden miner)
(Hey wooden miner, wooden miner
Hey wooden miner, wooden miner
Hey wooden miner, wooden miner
Hey wooden miner, wooden miner)