À Beira do Pantanal

It was there by the edge of the Pantanal
Your body so beautiful I buried
It was there that I killed my beloved
Her voice in memory I kept:
"Why, my dear
Why, my love
Did you thrust your dagger into me?
My young chest bleeding like this
Why this mortal blow?"

I murdered the one I loved
In a sacred gesture of love
The blood that flowed from her
Quenched the earth's thirst
And there where her body lies
Grew along with the grass
Her beautiful black hair that I
Watered like a garden

The law of men condemned me:
Perpetual will be your prison
Because it was I who silenced
With steel that heart

And I imprisoned here in this cell
Letting my life pass by
I still hear her voice
In the wind that comes to ask:
"Why, my dear
Why, my love
Did you thrust your dagger into me?
My young chest bleeding like this
Why this mortal blow?
Did you thrust your dagger into me
Why this mortal blow??