Before putting last Saturday's Graphical History Tour together, I had never heard the song "Aquarela do Brasil" sung with words.
What I found when looking up its lyrics were what someone wrote for Frank Sinatra to sing; Ary Barroso's original lyrics in Portuguese have nothing to do with S.K. Russell's lyrics about kissing under an amber moon.
Brasil, meu Brasil Brasileiro,
Meu mulato inzoneiro,
Vou cantar-te nos meus versos:
O Brasil, samba que dá,
Bamboleio, que faz gingar;
O Brasil do meu amor,
Terra de Nosso Senhor. ...
Ô! Esse Brasil lindo e trigueiro,
É o meu Brasil Brasileiro!
Granted, a direct translation would never have sold in the States. I can't quite imagine Sinatra crooning of "This Brazil, beautiful and swarthy."
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