Samba-Enredo 2024 - O Conto de Fados

A fated samba
To the sea on the other side
Fishing stories, ancestral memory
Travels in the mist of white foam
To enchant in the carnival
Goes to find
In the vast ocean the heroic Odysseus
Who beyond the Aegean was not frightened
With a queen so lonely and needy
Woman or serpent who swore her love
On the banks of the Tagus Lisbon was born
The muse of the praises of its minstrels
On the wild beach the gold flowed
And the guardian emerged from the tides

Put in the basket a handful of magic
From the deities that invaded the place
Put in the basket and knead with care
That from the bunch I make wine
To celebrate the harvest

In the soul of fado a thousand and one nights
Sweet flavors, old wisdom
Dream of Sagres, it was the matamba, inherited the samba, ifá, palm oil
Portugal of glories that reveal the past
To the monster that bled the enslaved
And came to land in the sea
That shines under the sky of Vera Cruz
A lavender bath that leads
The Holy Rosary and the faithful people
To sing the macumbado Tijuca fado
Of amen and axé

Bahian spins perfumed with rosemary
That Unidos da Tijuca fumigates with benzoin
Spins in the circle the skirt of lace linen
That fado turns into samba, and samba turns into fado