Maria-shut-mouth (maria Moita)

My father was a foreman

And my mother

Slave from birth

My father slept

On double bed

And she on beaten earth

When my father yelled

"Come here!" I'm afraid

She would only

Shut her mouth and obey

A silent woman

Never fears

Her man will go away

God made man first

And then he just

Made woman out of man

And that is why the woman

Always works

For both of them

When a man comes home

He wants to be fed

So the woman sets

His table and bed

And on her feet

Or on her back

She'll work until she's dead

The rich man wakes up late

And will do nothing

But complain

The poor man

Wakes up early just in time

To catch his train

So I'll pray

To all the saints that I know

And we'll ask Xangô

To come down on earth

And get his hands

On every jerk

Who never tried to work!