Maria Quiet - Astrud Gilberto

They say that I was born

Of slave mogama and white man

My father slept in iron bed

My mother on cold sand

When my father called

My mother would come

Never said a word

As if she were dumb

A woman who will talk too much

Is soon to lose her man

They say God made man first

And made a woman second choice

And so that’s why woman should

Obey her master’s voice

When the man is hungry

She bakes the bread

When man is cold

She warms up the bed

Standing up or laying down

The woman has to work

They say poor man wakes early

And he works until it’s night

The rich man wakes up late

And tells the poor man what is right

So the poor prays to shango up above

So the rich will lose the money they love

But rich or poor the woman has

To work for both of them