Composer: Ó Do Forró
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Tudo em vorta é só beleza
Sol de Abril e a mata em frô
Mas Assum Preto, cego dos óio
Num vendo a luz, ai, canta de dor
Tarvez por ignorança
Ou mardade das pió
Furaro os óio do Assum Preto
Pra ele assim, ai, cantá de mió
Assum Preto veve sorto
Mas num pode avuá
Mil vez a sina de uma gaiola
Desde que o céu, ai, pudesse oiá
Assum Preto, o meu cantar
É tão triste quanto o teu
Também roubaro o meu amor
Que era a luz, ai, dos óios meus
Também roubaro o meu amor
Que era a luz, ai, dos óios meus
Translation
All around is only beauty
April sun and the forest in bloom
But the Blackbird, blind in its eyes
Not seeing the light, oh, sings in pain
Perhaps out of ignorance
Or the worst kind of malice
They pierced the Blackbird's eyes
So that it would, oh, sing better this way
The Blackbird lives free
But cannot fly
A thousand times better the fate of a cage
If only it could, oh, see the sky
Blackbird, my song
Is as sad as yours
They also stole my love
Who was the light, oh, of my eyes
They also stole my love
Who was the light, oh, of my eyes
