Samba Italiano
"Samba Italiano"[1] (Italian Samba) is a popular samba song composed in 1965 by Adoniran Barbosa (1912–1982), who was a son of Italian immigrants from Valinhos, Brazil, and knew well the pidgin Italian-Portuguese dialect spoken in the streets of São Paulo, mostly in the Mooca, Brás and Bexiga sections.
The lyrics are very funny and non-sensical, at least for those Italian-Brazilians who can understand the language (a great number of paulistas).
Lyrics
[edit] Original Gioconda, piccina mia, Piove, piove, Ti ricordi, Gioconda, | Free translation Gioconda, my little girl It rains, it rains Do you remember, Gioconda |
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Samba italiano by Adoniran Barbosa, retrieved 2023-06-28
External links
[edit]- MP3 Recording of Samba Italiano. Terra Music.