It's better to be happy than to be sad
Joy is the best thing there is
It's just like the light in the heart
But to make a samba beautifully
You need a bit of sadness
Otherwise you can't do samba
Doing samba is not a joke
And whoever does samba like that is useless
Good samba is a form of prayer
Because samba is the sadness that shakes
And sadness always has hope
One day it won't be sad anymore
Put a little love in a cadence
And you'll see that no one in the world wins
The beauty that a samba has does not
Because samba was born there in Bahia
And if today he is white in poetry
He is too black in his heart