Progresso Lyrics

Avenida se abre
cortando matas,
rios e pardieiros.

Ralé é expulsa,
ferida,
para os montes cerqueiros.

Terreiro negro acumula
entulhos de ferro,
trilhos e trens.

Grita alto o sinal,
acende forte a luz
ante o assalto:
a República se impõe
com luzes e fardas.

E as velhas canções
poderão fazer esquecê-las?


ENGLISH

Progress

Avenue opens
cutting bushes,
rivers and houses

People expelled,
wounded,
to the surrounding hills.

Black Terreiro accumulates
Iron spoils, pieces of
rails and trains.

The signal screams loudly,
Strong light lights up
before the assault
The Republic imposes itself
with lights and batons

And the old songs,
can they make us forget them?