maguinha: Music

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Tudo em vorta e so beleza
Sol de abril e a mata em flor
Mas Assum Preto
Cego dos zoio
Num vendo a luz, ai!
Canta de dor....
Mas Assum Preto
Cego do zoio
Num vendo a luz, ai!
Canta de dor....

Tarveis por iguinoranca
ou mardade das pio
furaro os zoio
do Assum Preto
pra ele assim, ai,!
canta’ mio.
furaro os zoio
do Assum Preto
pra ele assim ai!
canta’ mio.

Assum Preto veve sorto
Mas num pode avoa
Mil veiz a sina
De uma gaiola
Desde que o ceu, ai!
Pudesse oia’
Mil veiz a sina
De uma gaiola
Desde que o ceu, ai!
Pudesse oia’

Assum Preto meu cantar
E’ tao triste quanto o teu
Tambem robaro
o meu amor
que era a luz, ai!
dos zoios meus
Tambem robaro
o meu amor
que era a luz, ai!
dos zoios meus!

English Translation

All around is pure beauty
April sun and
The forest in bloom
But Black Bird,
Blind of his eyes,
Not seeing the light
Sings from the pain.

Maybe out of ignorance
Or the worst kind of meanness
They put out the
Black Bird’s eyes
So that he’d sing
More beautifully.

Black Bird is always roaming
But he cannot fly away
A thousand times better
The fate of living in a cage
As long as he could see the sky

Black Bird my singing
Is as sad as yours.
They also took my love away
Who was the very light
Of my eyes.