A Permuta Dos Santos

Good Saint Joseph in porcelain will live
In the Mater of the Imaculada Conceição
Good Joseph now evicted
Can at last wake up
And respond to his flock, the landless, the unplaced and the hungry

There goes the Virgin of alabaster Conceição
In a tray to church of Bonfim
The bothered Virgin
Will have to hear our praying
Deliver us from drought, the flood and the bad seasons

Good Jesus in neon lights leaves Bonfim
To the chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo
Vexed, the good Lord
Must remember at long last
The promise of lush and gladness that he once made

Soapstone Borromeo arrives at the altar
That belongs to the star of Nazareth
The Nazareth in the back of a donkey
To the abbey of São João
And the Evangelist to the basilica of São José

But if life even then won't get any better
The pious will trade the good faith
And the parishes
With their saints all out of place
The saint that wants to go home
Should be hitting the road