
Date of issue: 02.08.1999
Record label: Concord
Song language: French
Samba Saravah(original) |
Être heureux, c’est plus ou moins ce qu’on cherche |
J’aime rire, chanter et je n’empêche |
Pas les gens qui sont bien d'être joyeux |
Pourtant s’il est une samba sans tristesse |
C’est un vin qui ne donne pas l’ivresse |
Un vin qui ne donne pas l’ivresse, non |
Ce n’est pas la samba que je veux |
J’en connais que la chanson incommode |
D’autres pour qui ce n’est rien qu’une mode |
D’autres qui en profitent sans l’aimer |
Moi je l’aime et j’ai parcouru le monde |
En cherchant ses racines vagabondes |
Aujourd’hui pour trouver les plus profondes |
C’est la samba-chanson qu’il faut chanter |
On m’a dit qu’elle venait de Bahia |
Qu’elle doit son rythme et sa poésie à |
Des siècles de danse et de douleur |
Mais quels que soient les sentiments qu’elle exprime |
Elle est blanche de formes et de rimes |
Blanche de formes et de rimes |
Elle est nègre, bien nègre, dans son cœur |
Mais quelque soit le sentiment qu’elle exprime |
Elle est blanche de formes et de rimes |
Blanche de formes et de rimes |
Elle est nègre, bien nègre, dans son cœur |
(translation) |
Being happy is more or less what we're looking for |
I like to laugh, to sing and I do not prevent |
Not the people who are good at being happy |
Yet if there is a samba without sadness |
It's a wine that doesn't make you drunk |
A wine that doesn't make you drunk, no |
It's not the samba that I want |
I know only the inconvenient song |
Others for whom it's just a fad |
Others who enjoy it without loving it |
I love her and I've traveled the world |
Searching for her wandering roots |
Today to find the deepest |
This is the samba-song to sing |
I was told she was from Bahia |
That it owes its rhythm and its poetry to |
Centuries of dance and pain |
But whatever feelings she expresses |
She's white with shapes and rhymes |
White of shapes and rhymes |
She's nigger, real nigger, in her heart |
But whatever sentiment she expresses |
She's white with shapes and rhymes |
White of shapes and rhymes |
She's nigger, real nigger, in her heart |
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