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 chalk-browed mockingbird, blind in the eyes
Not seeing the light, oh, sings in pain
Perhaps out of ignorance
Or the worst wickedness
They poked out the eyes of the chalk-browed mockingbird
So that he, oh, would sing better
The chalk-browed mockingbird lives free
But cannot fly
A thousand times the fate of a cage
Since the sky, oh, he could see
Chalk-browed mockingbird, your song
Is as sad as mine
They also stole my love, oh
Who was the light, oh, of my eyes
