here in the country we dance and we play and we pray to our saints and we make love all day i fell in love with a real city boy who s afraid of his nature afraid of his joy i punched him out and brought him to this hut but i know he ll thank me when he wakes up we got trees we got snakes we got acres of sky his life in the city was making him cry come on come on darling be brave for a while you don t look afraid when you laugh and you smile i ll be good i ll be strong i ll be just what you needed all along here in the country we dance and we play and we pray to our saints and we make love all day i fell in love with a real city boy who s afraid of his nature afraid of his joy us amazonians know where we stand we got kids we got jobs why do we need a man us amazonians make out alright but we want something to hold in the forest at night come on come on darling be brave for a while you don t look afraid when you laugh and you smile breathe in deep stick with me you ll still be free as you let yourself be if you re certain if you re true i ll be the only country girl for you i ll be good i ll be strong i ll be just what you needed all along here in the country we dance and we play and we pray to our saints and we make love all day i fell in love with a real city boy gotta teach him about nature and teach him about joy us amazonians know where we stand we got kids we got jobs why do we need a man us amazonians make out alright but we want something to hold in the forest at night here s my boyfriend he s small he is blue he is cold he is rough he s appalling that s true but he s got the power he s got the fire to be just like us is his only desire he ll learn to hunt and i ll teach him to fish we ll boil up our rice in a satellite dish we ll plant cassava wherever we can us amazonians always get our man us amazonians know where we stand we got kids we got jobs why do we need a man us amazonians make out alright but we want something to hold in the forest at night