Composer: Humberto Teixeira, Luiz Gonzaga, Humberto Luiz
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Full lyrics
Tudo em volta é só beleza
Sol de Abril e a mata em flor
Mas Assum Preto, cego dos olhos
Não vendo a luz, ai, canta de dor (bis)
Tarvez por ignorancia
Ou maldade das piores
Furaram os olhos do Assum Preto
Pra ele assim, ai, cantar melhor (bis)
Assum Preto veve solto
Mas não pode voar
Mil vezes a sina de uma gaiola
Desde que o céu, ai, pudesse olhar (bis)
Assum Preto, o meu cantar
É tão triste como o teu
Também roubaram o meu amor
Que era a luz, ai, dos olhos meus
Também roubaram o meu amor
Que era a luz, ai, dos olhos meus.
Translation
Everything around is just beauty
April sun and the forest in bloom
But Assum Preto, blind in the eyes
Not seeing the light, oh, sings of pain (bis)
Perhaps out of ignorance
Or the worst kind of malice
They pierced the eyes of the Assum Preto
So he would, oh, sing better (bis)
Assum Preto lives free
But cannot fly
A thousand times the fate of a cage
As long as the sky, oh, he could see (bis)
Assum Preto, my singing
Is as sad as yours
They also stole my love
Which was the light, oh, of my eyes
They also stole my love
Which was the light, oh, of my eyes.
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