Translation:With What Clothes?

Today I'm going to change my behavior I'm going to fight, because I want to improve myself I'm going to treat you with brute force So that I may rehabilitate myself Because this life is not child's play And I ask, with what clothes, with what clothes Will I go to the samba that you invited me to?

Today I am jumping like a frog To escape the curse of the black vulture I'm already freed of my tatters and I'm going to finish getting naked I turned my coat into oakum, and now, I don't know with what clothes

Your portuguese ran away, it's been gone And it took your fortune with it Forgetting the one who loved it so much before It took a boat to Portugal To marry a young girl, and now, with what clothes?

These days I'm not so affable Therefore, money is not easy to earn Indeed, as a swindler I don't obtain any money - whether to save or to spend I was once prosperous, but now, with what clothes?