Fernanda Porto
Sambassim lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Portuguese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2002
- Genre
- Bossa Nova, Electronic
- Length
- 4:12
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, samba
Sambassim, sambassim, samba
Comecei um sambassim
I started a sambassim
Sem pandeiro ou tamborim
Without a pandeiro or tambourine
Como quem não sabe nada de samba
Like someone who knows nothing of samba
Mas sempre ouviu tocar um bamba
But has always heard a bamba play
Comecei um sambassim
I started a sambassim
Sem pandeiro ou tamborim
Without a pandeiro or tambourine
Como quem não sabe nada de samba
Like someone who knows nothing of samba
Mas sempre ouviu tocar um bamba
But has always heard a bamba play
Eu nunca fui numa roda de samba
I've never been to a samba circle
Dessas de partido alto, quintal e varanda
Those of party high, backyard, and balcony
Mas meu samba tem repique, tem batuque
But my samba has a response, has a beat
O samplear é reco-reco e agogô
Sampling is reco-reco and agogô
Eu nunca fui numa roda de samba
I've never been to a samba circle
Dessas de partido alto, quintal e varanda
Those of party high, backyard, and balcony
Mas meu samba tem repique, tem batuque
But my samba has a response, has a beat
O samplear é reco-reco e agogô
Sampling is reco-reco and agogô
Esse samba é meu groove da vez
This samba is my groove of the moment
Com guitarra e drum ' n ' bass
With guitar and drum 'n' bass
Só pra ver como é que fica
Just to see how it turns out
Eletrônico coro da cuíca
Electronic choir of the cuíca
Esse samba é meu groove da vez
This samba is my groove of the moment
Com guitarra e drum ' n ' bass
With guitar and drum 'n' bass
Só pra ver como é que fica
Just to see how it turns out
Eletrônico coro da cuíca
Electronic choir of the cuíca
Samba assim assado
Samba this way and that
De beat acelerado
With an accelerated beat
Será que é samba assim?
Is it samba like this?
Samba assim assado
Samba like this, like that
De beat acelerado
With a fast-paced beat
É samba, sim
It is samba, yes
Samba assim assado
Samba like this, like that
De beat acelerado
With a fast-paced beat
Será que é samba assim?
Is it samba like this?
Samba assim assado
Samba like this, like that
De beat acelerado
With a fast-paced beat
É samba, sim
It is samba, yes
Sim ficou um samba, sim
Yes, it became a samba, yes
Com pandeiro e tamborim
With pandeiro and tamborim
E já penso que sei tudo de samba
And I already think I know everything about samba
Vou sampleando e sambando, sou bamba
I’m sampling and dancing samba, I’m a pro
Sim ficou um samba, sim
Yes, it became a samba, yes
Com pandeiro e tamborim
With pandeiro and tamborim
E já penso que sei tudo de samba
And I already think I know everything about samba
Vou sampleando e sambando, sou bamba
I’m sampling and dancing samba, I’m a pro
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Samba-samba, samba-samba, samba-samba, samba-samba
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Samba-samba, samba-samba, samba-samba, samba-samba
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, sambassim, sambassim
Sambassim, sambassim, samba
Sambassim, sambassim, samba
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Key vocabulary
- sambassim
- samba-style
- comecei
- started
- pandeiro
- tambourine
- tamborim
- tambourine
- sabe
- knows
- nada
- nothingA1
- sempre
- alwaysA1
- ouviu
- heard
- tocar
- playA2
- bamba
- great
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About this song
Fernanda Porto is a Brazilian electronic and drum-and-bass artist who blends electronica with Brazilian popular styles such as bossa nova, maracatu, and samba. She is known for her early 2002 self-titled album and her lyric-driven approach, including compositions and adaptations of Brazilian poetry and her subsequent Giramundo.