El Bahiano [English translation]

Another tragic story like so many I have heard

Of an impossible love, of an ill-fated romance,

They say that there, it was one day more on Ipanema beach,

A prestigious, respected doctor was with his daughter Lorena

Sitting at the bar and waiting for her dad, Lorena was listening to a piano

The pianist smiled, and Lorena fell for that unmistakeably gold-brown Baiano

Poet, aimless and penniless dreamer

But she would not leave his side, no.

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That Baiano of earth and sun, showed her what love is

That Baiano was more than the sky, was more than a god

The force that possessed them, then likewise betrayed them

Oh, even now you can hear in the air, Lorena weeping her love for that Baiano.

Naturally, the father's shouting could reach the sky

"Daughter, what will your mother say? What about everyone else?

That miserable wretch is far beneath you

And cannot be accepted in high society.

Forget the Baiano, because I will never allow this

I'll take you far away so that you won't see him again."

With her soul in despair, inconsolable was Lorena

When she reached the summit of the Corcovado

"I can't live without my Baiano's love"

And exactly like that, she opened her arms and flew

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