Influência do Jazz

Poor samba of mine
It got mixed up, modernized, and lost its way
And the rhythm, where is it, it’s gone?
Where’s that groove that moves us?
Poor samba of mine, it changed all of a sudden
Influence of jazz

It almost died
And it’s about to die, it doesn’t even realize
And the samba sways side to side
Jazz is different, it’s forward and back
Samba’s kinda dead, it’s all twisted
Influence of jazz

In the Afro-Cuban it goes, complicating it goes
Through the pipe it goes
It’s bending, goes, without resting it goes
Out, falls, in the rhythm

Poor samba of mine
Go back to the hill and ask for help where it was born
So it won’t be a samba with too many notes
Not a samba twisted forward and back
It’s gonna have to figure it out to break free
From the influence of jazz

In the Afro-Cuban it goes, complicating it goes
Through the pipe it goes
It’s bending, goes, without resting it goes
Out, falls, in the rhythm

Poor samba of mine
Go back to the hill and ask for help where it was born
So it won’t be a samba with too many notes
Not a samba twisted forward and back
It’s gonna have to figure it out to break free
From the influence of jazz