Sleep, black baby

Sleep, sleep, black baby,
your mama’s in the fields,
black baby...
Sleep, sleep, Movila,
your mama’s in the fields,
Movila.

She’s gonna bring back
some partridges for you.
She’s gonna bring back
delicious fruit for you.
She’s gonna bring back
some pig meat for you.
She’s gonna bring back
lots of things for you.

And if you don’t go to sleep
the white devil is coming
an zap! he’ll eat up your little piggies!
chacapumba.

Sleep, sleep, black baby,
your mama’s in the fields,
black baby...
Working,
working very hard.
Working,
working and wheeping.
Working,
working and getting no pay.
Working,
working and coughing.
Working,
for her little black baby.
For the black baby, yes,
working.