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A popular samba will take place on this avenue
Every cobblestone in the old city will have goose bumps tonight
When you remember that immortal sambas performed here
That bled here at our feet
That our sambas performed here ancestors
In a time, an unhappy page of our history,
faded passage in memory
Of our new generations
Our motherland slept so distracted
without realizing that she was taken away
br/>In dark transactions
His children wandered blind across the continent,
carrying stones like penitents
Erecting strange cathedrals
And one day, after all, they had the right to fleeting joy
br/>A breathless epidemic that was called carnival,
the carnival, the carnival
It will pass, applause to the wing of the hungry barons
The block of the black Napoleons
and the pygmies of boulevard
My God, come look, come see a singing city up close
The evolution of freedom until the day dawns
Oh what a good life, oh lerê,
oh what a life good, oh lará
The banner of the general sanatorium will pass
Oh what a good life, oh lerê,
oh what a good life, oh lará
The banner of the general sanatorium... it will pass