Samba Italiano
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Samba Italiano (Italian Samba) is a popular samba song composed in 1965 by Adoniran Barbosa (1912-1982), who was a son of Italian immigrants of the city of Valinhos, Brazil, and knew well the pidgin Italian-Portuguese dialect spoken in the streets of São Paulo, mostly in the sections of Mooca, Brás and Bexiga.
The lyrics are very funny and non-sensical, at least for those Italian-Brazilians who can understand the language (a great number of paulistas).
[edit] Lyrics
Original Gioconda, pitina mia, Piove, piove, Ti ricordi, Gioconda, |
Free translation Gioconda, my little It rains, it rains Do you remember, Gioconda |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- MP3 Recording of Samba Italiano. Terra Music.