Madeira Boa (charm)
Abadá Capoeira
Good Wood (charm)
I'll wait for the moon to come back
I want to go into the forest
I will take good wood
For my berimbau to do
I'll wait for the moon to come back
I want to go into the forest
I will take good wood
For my berimbau to do
Good wood is like friendship
But it's hard to find
I keep friendship in my heart
And from the wood I will make my berimbau
Night comes and I enter the forest
Moon shines, I'm going to look
Jequitibá and maçaranduba
I must find the guatambu
If Master Bimba was here
To teach me how to choose wood
I now entered the forest
I took out Ipê and Pau Pereira
On the full moon I will reap the fruits
And in the waning I take the wood
I'm going to make my berimbau
I'm going to play capoeira
In old Africa, Ungo was used
In major religious festivals
Kingenge is an Umbundu dialect
It is the berimbau that conquered the world
