Everyone should be happy, I agree
and laugh and sing every night, like you and me
yet pain and sorrows appear out of the blue
So there must be in the samba lonely sighs
so she remains like a dawn that will not rise
like champagne with no bubbles 'round your nose
that's not the kind of samba that I love
To sing a samba without sadness
Is to love a woman who has nothing but her beauty
So said Vinicius de Moraes, poet and diplomat,
who loves his country passionately
and I, who also love passionately,
can best express that love in the samba
like a lover telling everyone of his love
except the woman he loves
There are some who believe she'll fade away
but they are fools who don't know her anyway
and yet I want to possess her all the more
There's no sound quite as motherless to know
There's no sound quite as subtle quite as strong
The sound of summer, spring and fall
And so my heart will love the samba best of all
João Gilberto, Carlos Lyra, Dorival Caymmi, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Baden Powell who together created this song and many others, I salute you. Tonight I raise my glass to you in gratitude for everything you helped me discover, you who made the samba what she is. Saravah.... Pixinginha, Noel Rosa, Dolores Duran, Cyro Monteiro, to all of you. And all of the other dear friends so close to my heart tonight, Baden of course, Ico, Oswaldo, Luigi, Oscar, Nicolino, Milton, saravah…
Saravah...
To all of you my friends who invented a word I can never say without emotion, a word that stirs people and makes them sing, that warms the sky, samba
Long ago down in Bahia she was born
and years of joy and of sadness brought her form
now her beauty belongs to everyone
*She has the grace of whiteness in her form
She has the soul of blackness in her heart
I am enchanted by her call,
My heart loves the samba best of all
*repeat x2