Samba-Enredo 2023 - As Áfricas Que a Bahia Canta

Every woman is an arrow of evolution
May Exu open our paths
And make the green and pink quilombo
A palace for every black queen
Mangueira, where Rio is more Bahian
Eparrey, Oyá

Oyá, Oyá, Oyá, eô
Ê matamba, lady of my nation
Daughter of dawn, loaded with palm oil
I am the arrow of evolution
I am Mangueira, arrow of evolution

I carry the color, my Ilú is the drum
That shook Salvador, Bahia
Africas that I recreated, to resist is law
Art is rebellion
Crowned by the cucumbis
From the quilombo to the embassies
With ganzás and xequerês I founded my country
By the sound of the atabaques my country sings

Bring Exu's padê
For mother Oxum to play the ijexá
Street of the afoxés, voice of the candomblés
Xirê of orixá

Bring Exu's padê
For mother Oxum to play the ijexá
Street of the afoxés, voice of the candomblés
Xirê of orixá

Goddess of Ilê Aiye, of the ghetto
My black hair, black, crown of black
The struggle of Catendê was not in vain
Dream badauê, didá revolution
Candace of Olodum, I am debalê of Ogum
Children of Gandhi, peace of Oxalá

When joy invades the Pelourinho
It's carnival, in the skin, the swing of color
My timbal is strength and power
For every woman of arerê
Free the beat of Canjerê

Eparrey, Oyá
Eparrey, mother
When green meets pink, every black woman is queen
Eparrey, Oyá
Eparrey, mother
When green meets pink, every black woman is queen

Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Reigns the ginga of Iaiá on the slope
In Tia Fé's house
Axé, Mangueira

Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Reigns the ginga of Iaiá on the slope
In Tia Fé's house
Axé, Mangueira

Oyá, Oyá, Oyá, eô
Ê matamba, lady of my nation
Daughter of dawn, loaded with palm oil
I am the arrow of evolution
I am Mangueira, arrow of evolution

I carry the color, my Ilú is the drum
That shook Salvador, Bahia
Africas that I recreated, to resist is law
Art is rebellion
Crowned by the cucumbis
From the quilombo to the embassies
With ganzás and xequerês I founded my country
By the sound of the atabaques my country sings

Bring Exu's padê
For mother Oxum to play the ijexá
Street of the afoxés, voice of the candomblés
Xirê of orixá

Bring Exu's padê
For mother Oxum to play the ijexá
Street of the afoxés, voice of the candomblés
Xirê of orixá

Goddess of Ilê Aiye, of the ghetto
My black hair, black, crown of black
The struggle of Catendê was not in vain
Dream badauê, didá revolution
Candace of Olodum, I am debalê of Ogum
Children of Gandhi, peace of Oxalá

When joy invades the Pelourinho
It's carnival, in the skin, the swing of color
My timbal is strength and power
For every woman of arerê
Free the beat of Canjerê

Eparrey, Oyá
Eparrey, mother
When green meets pink, every black woman is queen
Eparrey, Oyá
Eparrey, mother
When green meets pink, every black woman is queen

Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Reigns the ginga of Iaiá on the slope
In Tia Fé's house
Axé, Mangueira

Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Reigns the ginga of Iaiá on the slope
In Tia Fé's house
Axé, Mangueira

Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Samba went to live where Rio is more Bahian
Reigns the ginga of Iaiá on the slope
In Tia Fé's house
Axé, Mangueira

Axé!
Mangueira!

Hold on, I want to see (me too)