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Azul​ã​o (Brazil, Cuban bolero)

from All Around This World: Latin America by All Around This World

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This is a love song in Portuguese sung by boy who lives on the sertão, which is a rather barren-looking, semi-arid plain in Brazil’s interior highlands. The girl in the song has moved away, and the boy, lamenting the fact that the girl is gone, dispatches a sertão bluebird to fly to her and tell her how much he misses her.

Noted Brazilian 20th century poet Manuel Bandeira wrote the lyrics for this song, which is a “modhina,” a Brazilian romantic art song that became popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Vai, Azulão, Azulão companheiro, vai!
Vai ver minha ingrata, diz que sem ela
O sertão náo é mais sertão! Ai! Vão a Azulão
Vai contar companheiro, vai!

Fly bluebird, friend, fly to my long lost love,
Say that without her this barren land’s not the same since she said goodbye,
Ah, fly bluebird, friend, go and tell her, my bluebird fly.

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from All Around This World: Latin America, released October 1, 2013
Vocals: Giovanna Robinson
Piano: John Stengel
© music (c) Peer International Corp. on behalf of Iramos Vitale S.A.
lyrics (c) 1964 M4NGIONE, FILHOS & CA LTDA, successor EDITORIAL MANGIONE SA,
successor to E. S. MANGIONE - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
All rights reserved for all countries of the world, translation and arrangement by Jay Sand with permission

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