Mangueira

There is not and cannot be
Like Mangueira there is
The samba comes from there
Joy as well
Only Mangueira has the charming brunette

There is not and cannot be
Like Mangueira there is
The samba comes from there
Joy as well
Only Mangueira has the charming brunette

Speak, Mangueira, speak
Show the strength of your tradition
With the permission of Portela, favela
Mangueira lives in my heart

Speak, Mangueira, speak
Show the strength of your tradition
With the permission of Portela, favela
Mangueira lives in my heart

Mangueira is always in first place
Where the samba rhythm broke through
Let São Carlos speak
Let Salgueiro say
Speak, Mangueira, speak
Show the strength of your tradition
With the permission of Portela, favela
Mangueira lives in my heart
There is not and cannot be
Like Mangueira there is
Speak, Mangueira, speak
Show the strength of your tradition

Mangueira, your scenery is a beauty
That nature created
The hill with its zinc shacks
When it dawns, what splendor

Everyone knows you from afar
By the sound of your tambourines
And the beating of your drum

Here comes, oh, oh, oh, oh
Mangueira has arrived, oh, oh

I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
I only know, if all the beauty I speak of
Comes solely from my heart
In Mangueira, poetry
In a constant up and down
Walks barefoot teaching
A new way for people to live
To dream, to think, and to suffer
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
Mangueira is so great, that it cannot be explained

I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
I only know, if all the beauty I speak of
Comes solely from my heart
In Mangueira, poetry
In a constant up and down
Walks barefoot teaching
A new way for people to live
To dream, to think, and to suffer
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
Mangueira is so great, that it cannot be explained

Rise, Mangueira
The dust from the ground
Samba from the heart

Rise, Mangueira
The dust from the ground
Samba from the heart

In Mangueira at the time of my farewell
Everyone cried, everyone cried
It was the greatest emotion of my life
Because in Mangueira, my heart stayed

In Mangueira at the time of my farewell
Everyone cried, everyone cried
It was the greatest emotion of my life
Because in Mangueira, my heart stayed

It stayed
To hurt my heart