Aquarela do Brasil (song)

Aquarela do Brasil is a song written by Ary Barroso in 1939. In Disney, it was featured in the final segment of the same name from the 1942 Disney film, Saludos Amigos. It is one of Brazil's most famous songs. The song is entirely sung in Portuguese.
The song is also used in an early trailer for WALL-E; as well as performed in the Spike Milligan episode of The Muppet Show by a Scotsman on bagpipes. It was also hummed by Wilbur in The Rescuers Down Under.
==Background==
In the segment, the song is sung in two parts: one where an artist draws the landscape of Brazil which ends when the artist draws Donald Duck and José Carioca and one where the artist draws musicians playing samba where Donald dances with the beat of samba after drinking cachaça.
==Lyrics==
<tabber>
First verse=
Brasil, meu Brasil brasileiro, (Brazil, my Brazilian Brazil)
Meu mulato inzoneiro, (My cool mulatto)
Vou cantar-te nos meus versos: (I will sing you in my verses)
O Brasil, samba que dá, (Brazil, samba that gives)
Bamboleio, que faz gingar; (Bamboleio [a type of dance], which makes you sway)
O Brasil do meu amor, (The Brazil of my love)
Terra de Nosso Senhor (Land of our Lord)
Brasil!... (Brasil!) (Brazil)
Prá mim!... (Prá mim!...) (For me)
Esse coqueiro que dá coco, (This coconut tree that gives coconut,)
Onde eu amarro a minha rede, (Where I tie my net)
Nas noites claras de luar (On clear moonlit nights)
Brasil!... (Chorus: Brasil!...)
Ô! Estas fontes murmurantes, (Oh, these murmuring fountains)
Onde eu mato a minha sede, (Where I quench my thirst)
E onde a lua vem brincar (And where the moon comes to play)
Ô! Esse Brasil lindo e trigueiro, (Oh, this beautiful and dark Brazil)
É o meu Brasil brasileiro, (It's my Brazilian Brazil)
Terra de samba e pandeiro (Land of samba and pandeiro [a Brazilian instrument similar to the tambourine])
Brasil!... (Brasil!...) Prá mim!... (Prá mim!...)
(instrumental verse then ends when Donald Duck appears in the segment where he meets José Carioca)
|-|Second verse=
(samba verse)
Ô! Esse Brasil lindo e trigueiro,
É o meu Brasil Brasileiro,
Terra de samba e pandeiro
Brasil!... (Brasil!...) Prá mim!... (Prá mim!...)
(cue to end of film)
|-|English sheet lyrics=
There is an English-adapted version of the song included in the official sheet music version of the song, simply titled as "Brazil", with lyrics translated by the late Bob Russell.
Brazil, the Brazil that I knew
Where I wandered with you
Lives in my imagination
Where the songs are passionate
And a smile has flash in it
And a kiss has art in it
For you put your heart in it
And so I dream of old Brazil
Brazil, the Brazil that I knew
Where I wandered with you
Lives in my imagination
Where the songs are passionate
And a smile has flash in it
And a kiss has art in it
For you put your heart in it
And so I dream of old Brazil
Where hearts were entertaining June,
We stood beneath an amber moon
And softly murmured, "Someday soon"
We kissed and clung together,
Then tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a million things to say
Now when twilight dims the sky above,
Recalling thrills of our love,
There's one thing I’m certain of
Return I will
To old Brazil
</tabber>
==External links==
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Category:Saludos Amigos
Category:Closing songs
Category:Non-Disney songs
Category:Reprise
Category:Saludos Amigos songs
Category:The Muppets songs