Born in Santos, 1920
Boy with gust and guts aplenty
Stole some rope and leapt from tall trees
Taught himself the high wire trapeze

Under the big top over that crowd
He always looked up he never looked down
He was as
Light as a sparrow
Fast as an arrow
Bright as a star
“Jose Fernandez!”
If you could have seen him
You would have been him
You would have loved
“Jose Fernandez!”
Light as a sparrow
Fast as an arrow
Bright as a star
“Jose Fernandez!”
The greatest, the greatest,
The greatest, the greatest

How so daring, how so dashing?
What of terra firma crashing?
‘Tish and Pish, and what about it …
Never even thought to doubt it

Nightly he dreamt and daily as well
Flimsy his grip ‘til one day he fell
No longer
Light as a sparrow
Fast as an arrow
Bright as a star
“Jose Fernandez!”
If you could have seen him
You would have been him
You would have loved
“Jose Fernandez!”
Light as a sparrow
Fast as an arrow
Bright as a star
“Jose Fernandez!”
The greatest, the greatest,
The greatest, the greatest

End