When I die
I don't want crying or candle
I want a yellow ribbon
With her name on it
If there exists a soul
If there is another incarnation
I'd like it if the mulatto woman
Tap-danced on my coffin
I don't want flowers
Nor crown of thorns
I just want choro with flute
Guitar and cavaquinho
I'm content
Consoled to know
That the earth will one day eat
The dark women so beautiful
I don't have heirs
I don't own a penny
I always owed everybody
But I never paid anybody
My enemies
Who today speak badly of me
Will say that they never saw
A guy as good as me
I want the sun
Not to visit my coffin
So that my poor soul
Doesn't die of sunstroke
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