Samba do Arnesto
"Samba do Arnesto" (English: Arnesto's samba) is a classical samba song composed in 1953 by Italian Brazilian composer and singer Adoniran Barbosa. In his style of the "paulista" samba, it has humorous lyrics written in poor Portuguese language of the São Paulo city's poor suburbs with Italian immigrants. As is typical of many of his compositions, the last four lines are spoken instead of sung.
Lyrics[]
Original O Arnesto nos convidô prum samba, ele mora no Brás
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Free translation Ernest has invited us for a samba, he lives in Brás
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The Portuguese lyrics above include grammatical and pronunciation features of the local speech (in italic) that violate official language norm. Those details are unfortunately lost in the English translation.
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External links[]
- MP3 Recording of Samba do Arnesto. Terra Music.
- Brazilian songs
- Portuguese-language songs
- Samba songs
- 1953 songs
- Songs written by Adoniran Barbosa
- Brazilian music stubs