
Caetano Veloso
Tempo de estio lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Portuguese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1978
- Genre
- Bossa Nova
- Length
- 5:08
Quero comer
I want to eat
Quero mamar
I want to suck
Quero preguiça
I want to be lazy
Quero querer
I want to want
Quero sonhar
I want to dream
Felicidade
Happiness
É o amor
It's love
É o calor
It's the heat
A cor da vida
The color of life
É o verão
It's summer
Meu coração
My heart
É a cidade
Is the city
Rio
Rio
Eu quero suas meninas
I want your girls
Eu quero
I want
Suas meninas
Your girls
O Rio está
Rio is
Cheio de sol
Full of sun
Solanges e Leilas
Solanges and Leilas
Flávias e Patrícias e Sonias e Malenas
Flávias and Patrícias and Sonias and Malenas
Anas e Marinas e Lucias e Terezas
Anas and Marinas and Lucias and Terezas
Glórias e Denises e luz eterna Vera
Glorias and Denises and eternal light Vera
Rio
River
Tempo de estio
Time of summer
Eu quero
I want
Suas meninas
Your girls
Eu quero
I want
Suas meninas
Your girls
Quero comer
I want to eat
Quero mamar
I want to nurse
Quero preguiça
I want laziness
Quero querer
I want to want
Quero sonhar
I want to dream
Felicidade
Happiness
É o amor
It's love
É o calor
It's warmth
A cor da vida
The color of life
É o verão
It's summer
Meu coração
My heart
É a cidade
It's the city
Rio
River
Tempo de estio
Time of summer
Eu quero
I want
Suas meninas
Your girls
Eu quero
I want
Suas meninas.
Your girls.
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Key vocabulary
- quero
- want
- sonhar
- dreamA2
- felicidade
- happiness
- calor
- heatA1
- vida
- lifeB1
- coração
- heartB1
- cheio
- fullA2
- solanges
- Solange
- leilas
- Leila
- flávias
- Flávia
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About this song
Caetano Veloso is a Brazilian singer-songwriter associated with Tropicália and Brazilian popular music. Known for his genre-spanning career that has blended bossa nova, folk, and experimental rock, he is also recognized for his role in shaping the Tropicalist movement.