“Casa no campo” by Elis Regina (1972)

Listen to the Elis sing the song
(Remastered 2021 version)

A House in the Country
I want a house in the country
Where I can compose rural rock songs
And have only the certainty
Of my closest friends and nothing else

I want a house in the country
Where I can be the size of peace
And have only the certainty
Of the limits of my body and nothing more

I want sheep and goats
Grazing serenely in my garden
I want the silence of tired tongues
I want the hope of glasses
And my son with his head on right
I want to plant and harvest by hand
Pepper and salt

I want a house in the country
Of the ideal size, wattle and daub and thatching
Where I can plant my friends
My records and books and nothing more