Chico Buarque
Uma menina lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Portuguese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1987
- Genre
- Bossa Nova, Samba
- Length
- 3:19
Uma menina igual a mil
A girl like a thousand
Que não está nem aí
Who doesn't care at all
Tivesse a vida pra escolher
If she had life to choose
E era talvez ser distraída
And perhaps she’d be absent-minded
O que ela mais queria ser
What she wanted most to be
Ah, se eu pudesse não cantar
Ah, if I could not sing
Esta absurda melodia
This absurd melody
Pra uma menina distraída
For an absent-minded girl
Uma menina igual a mil
A girl like a thousand
No Morro do Tuiuti
In Morro do Tuiuti
Uma menina igual a mil
A girl like a thousand
Que não está nem aí
Who doesn't care at all
Tivesse a vida pra escolher
If she had a life to choose
E era talvez ser distraída
And it might be to be distracted
O que ela mais queria ser
What she wanted most to be
Ah, se eu pudesse não cantar
Ah, if I could not sing
Esta absurda melodia
This absurd melody
Pra uma criança assim caída
For a child like this fallen
Uma menina do Brasil
A girl from Brazil
Que não está nem aí
Who doesn't care at all
Uma menina igual a mil
A girl like a thousand
No Morro do Tuiuti
On the Hill of Tuiuti
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Key vocabulary
- menina
- girlA1
- igual
- equalA2
- mil
- thousandA2
- aí
- thereA1
- tivesse
- had
- vida
- lifeB1
- escolher
- choose
- talvez
- maybeA1
- distraída
- distractedB1
- mais
- moreA1
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About this song
Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, poet, novelist, and playwright associated with samba, bossa nova, and MPB. He is known for intricate harmonic work and lyrics that often engage politics and culture, including foundational recordings such as Construção and Calabar.