A keresés eredménye

Building My Batuku

Oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah
It wasn’t only me that was there
 
Ohh young people
(I was not the only one there)
Let me tell you all a story
(I was not the only one there)
When I was building my batuku
(I was not the only one there)
Ohh people, I went through it
(I was not the only one there)
I was counting on comadre Diana
(I was not the only one there)
She told me she liked batuku
(I was not the only one there)
She told me to talk with his husband Chico
(I was not the only one there)
When I when to his home
(I was not the only one there)
I found Compadre Chico at the door
and Diana behind him
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘good to see you Compadre’
(I was not the only one there)
He said ‘Come in, get comfortable’
(I was not the only one there)
‘If it’s good news, then is welcomed’
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘You know why I’m here?
To ask for your permission for your wife to join my batuku’
(I was not the only one there)
He said ‘Good lord have mercy, not on my watch’
(I was not the only one there)
‘You have gone crazy’
(I was not the only one there)
That his wife is not crazy, nor a thief, a drinker or careless’
(I was not the only one there)
That she has things to do at home
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘Compadre I’m also not crazy, a thief,
a drinker or careless’
(I was not the only one there)
‘I also have what to do at home’
(I was not the only one there)
He slapped Comadre Diana with the back of his hands, and she fell under the table’
(I was not the only one there)
He said to her ‘go and feed the goats, they are hungry!’
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘Compadre, I was never expecting that from you’
(I was not the only one there)
He said ‘Get out of my house’
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘well, I’m not here to live with you’
(I was not the only one there)
‘I didn’t crew bulls, I’m not a ‘zoito pig’
(I was not the only one there)
‘As you see I’m my own person’
(I was not the only one there)
He said ‘get out of my place before I hit you with this stick’
(I was not the only one there)
I said ‘ ahh yes Compadre’
(I was not the only one there)
‘You better be sure of your actions’
(I was not the only one there)
‘Because I’m a grown woman’
(I was not the only one there)
‘My skirt doesn’t mean I’ll take your manners’
(I was not the only one there)
‘I you revolve to hit me with the stick,
you will eat the devil’s bread’
(I was not the only one there)
He asked me if I didn’t knew who he was
(I was not the only one there)
I said ‘I don’t know and don’t need to know’
(I was not the only one there)
‘I despise who knows and wants to tell me about it’
(I was not the only one there)
He said ‘I do what I say, my xerém (type of food) doesn’t spill,
but that who spills it will have to catch it
even if it is in Prego Ribeira.’
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘ I have no fear, I’m not scared’
(I was not the only one there)
‘I’m the daughter to Archangel Michael’
(I was not the only one there)
‘The men who suppresses me is the like satan in hell’
(I was not the only one there)
He said ‘Christ woman, what’s batuku after all’
(I was not the only one there)
I told him ‘if you listen, you will know’
(I was not the only one there)
‘Batuku is sentiment and happiness, is peace and love,
is solidarity, is sending a message, Batuku is the ‘’good live’’,
it's everything we feel inside of us’
(I was not the only one there)
 
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah
I hope you can change
 
Ohh Compadre
(I hope you can change)
Why you're doing me like that
(I hope you can change)
Why are you treating me badly?
(I hope you can change)
Why you only think about war
(I hope you can change)
He made the world, and made it big so we can all fit in it
(I hope you can change)
The world have a head and a feet (it is perfect)
(I hope you can change)
The world have half and middle
(I hope you can change)
The world have a road and a route
(I hope you can change)
You tell me the way
(I hope you can change)
He (God) send us his white Lamb with long wool
and someone already sheared him
(I hope you can change)
That’s why it was killed (possibly meaning Jesus)
(I hope you can change)
 
[Goes to explain that the world is not in harmony anymore because of how people act. She talks in detail about her crops not being abundant and her chicks being killed by birds of prey]
 
Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah
It wasn’t only me that was there
 
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
 
I went up the hill
I came down the hill
I cross all of this, it is no big deal
 
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)
It wasn’t only me (that was there)...