Rap Repente

Time dances in João's voice
Time dances
The same dance that invents the nation
The same dance

I told you I was coming
I told you I was going
I told you I was going
I told you I came from Bahia

Salvador dance
The city reinvented reggae
With the samba guy
Who is the king of Olodum

My joyful Bahia
What a boring poverty
Here misery is just a joke to dance
Here misery is just a joke

I told you I was coming
I told you I was going
I told you I was going
I told you I came from Bahia

The river dances at the feet of the Bahian
From the samba school of Rio de Janeiro, February
March, April, May, June, July, August
September, October, November, and December
Rio, you are more beautiful when smiling
Rio, you are more beautiful when smiling

I told you I was coming
I told you I was going
I told you I was going
I told you I came from Bahia

Samba, Sampa, São Paulo
Holy concrete
Empty streets
Sea of people
Street poem
My consolation
Is from Saint São Paulo
Sing São Paulo
Oh, oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

We're planting banana trees (7x)
Brazil upside down
The same bag of flour
The banana from our bunch
Brazil's banana

And we want something else, something else
We want music, something else, something else
We want samba, something else, something else
We want Carmen Miranda's joy, something else, something else

Time dances in João's voice
Time dances
The same dance that invents the nation
The same dance

We want Brazil

I told you I was coming
I told you I was going
I told you I was going
I told you I came from Bahia

oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh