Mangueira - Samba-Enredo 1987

The kingdom of words

Mangueira
Hand in hand with poetry
Brings to the people's arms
This brilliant poet
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
His works are words
From a kingdom of truth

Itabira
In his verses he praised so much
With love
Here is the green and pink
Singing in verse and prose
What inspired the poet

It's Don Quixote, oh
It's Zé Pereira
It's Charlie Chaplin
In the rhythm of Mangueira

Look at the frowns
Of the São Francisco River
Row, row, rower
Spring is coming
Inspiring love
The river takes the form of a samba dancer
As the artist imagined

In the illusion of a dream
I found
The elephant that I
Imagined