Composer: Trio Nordestino
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Tudo em volta é só beleza
Céu de abril e a mata em flor
Mas assum preto, cego dos óio
Não vendo a luz, ai, canta de dor
Talvez por ignorância
Ou maldades das pió
Furaro os óio do assum preto
Pra ele assim, ai, cantá mió
Assum preto vive solto
Mas num pode avuá
Mil vezes a sina de uma gaiola
Desde que o céu, ai, pudesse óia
Assum preto, o teu cantá
É tão triste como o meu
Também roubaro o meu amô, ai
Que era a luz, ai dos óio meu
Translation
All around is only beauty
April sky 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 wickedness of the worst
They poked out the blackbird's eyes
So that it would, oh, sing better
The blackbird lives free
But cannot fly
A thousand times better the fate of a cage
Than not being able to, oh, see the sky
Blackbird, your song
Is as sad as mine
They also stole my love, oh
Who was the light, oh, of my eyes
