um dia na senzala

Whoever has been in the slave quarters one day...
Can you tell me how it is...

Crushing sugar cane hey hey hey...
Pounding the pestle...(2x)

The black man was enslaved under the eye
of the captain, during the day he worked barefoot,
with his feet on the ground.

Chorus:

The black man suffered in the slave quarters in the sight of the colonel
from where he looked from the balcony as a lightning
comes from the sky.

Chorus:

What a life that was, today it doesn't even
exist anymore how bad it was to be in the sights of
a foreman