Discover the story of the song > Maria Moita – Rosalia de Souza

The protagonist in the song is a woman who was born in Bahia. Her father slept in a bed and her mother worked as a weigher. Her father would always tell her to come here and her mother would always say yes without speaking. The song talks about how women have to work for both themselves and their partners, and how men always complain while women have to take care of them. The protagonist also mentions asking her spiritual leader to pray to Xangô, an African deity, to make people who have never worked before start working.