Meaning title: The last truck (literally macaw's perch) / De laatste truck(letterlijk papegaaienstok)
Music & lyrics: Luiz Gonzaga
Performance: Gilberto Gil
Soundtrack of the film 'Eu Tu Eles' (2000)
Português
A vida aqui só é ruim
Quando não chove no chão
Mas se chover dá de tudo
Fartura tem de montão
Tomara que chova logo
Tomara meu Deus tomara
Só deixo o meu Cariri
No último pau-de-arara*
Só deixo meu cariri
No último pau-de-arara
Enquanto a minha vaquinha
Tiver o couro e o osso
E puder com o chocalho
Pendurado no pescoço
Eu vou ficando por aqui
Que Deus do céu me ajude
Quem sai da terra natal
Em outros cantos não para
Só deixo o meu cariri
No último pau-de-arara
Só deixo meu cariri
No último pau-de-arara
English
Life here is only bad
When it doesn't rain on the ground
But when it rains everything grows
Abundance of everything
Hopefully it rains soon
I hope so, my God, I hope it so much
I will only leave my Cariri
On the very last truck
I will only leave my Cariri
On the very last truck
As long as my little cow
Still has skin and bones
And can still wear the bell
That's hanging from her neck
I will stick around here
That God in heaven may help me
Who leaves his native soil
Won't settle anywhere else
I will only leave my Cariri
On the very last truck
I will only leave my Cariri
On the very last truck
Nederlands
Het leven is hier alleen slecht
Als er geen regen op de grond valt
Maar als het regent dan groeit er van alles
Alles is er dan in overvloed
Ik hoop dat het maar snel regent
Ik hoop het, mijn God, ik hoop het zo
Ik verlaat alleen mijn Cariri
Op de allerlaatste truck
Ik verlaat alleen mijn Cariri
Op de allerlaatste truck
Zolang mijn koetje
Nog vel over been heeft
En de bel nog kan dragen
Die hangt om haar nek
Zal ik hier blijven
Dat God in de hemel mij helpe
Wie zijn geboortegrond verlaat
Zal nooit meer ergens kunnen aarden
Ik verlaat alleen mijn Cariri
Op de allerlaatste truck
Ik verlaat alleen mijn Cariri
Op de allerlaatste truck
* Pau-de-arara literally translates to 'macaw's perch' ('papegaaienstok')
It is a truck transformed into a (not very comfortable) means of regional public transport (see picture below)