TIN CRIB 'a sad christmas song'

[Simple Tania]

Three aluminum stars

Shining on a kerosene sky

A drunk asserting himself to be Caesar

Makes a solemn speech

Chinese shadows on the streets

Spiders are drawn in the webs

'Lockpicks' are impatient

Runs the 'horse' in the veins

There's a white light in the tent.

Inside a holy family

At the door an old tire with dirt

Where a bougainvillea grows

It's the tin crib...

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Hear a child's cry

Will be white, black or mulatto

Play the Trumpets of Hope

And settle well what date is

The moon bears good news

To the farthest suburbs

Warns pastors without a roof

Sad wandering 'wise men'

And there comes a sheet metal sun

Going up to advertise the day

Two little cardboard angels

Go singing 'Alleluia'

It's the tin crib...
Jingle bells, jingle bells

The child was born at last.

It was put here to false faith

The mother left him alone

The father doesn't know who it is.

It's the tin crib...
Jingle bells, jingle bells

Lyric from a song of Rui Veloso, I heard this afternoon.

Because it's Christmas everywhere, and it's Christmas for everybody, even for those who don't have, what we call, 'CHRISTMAS'!