Monday, April 16, 2018

Água de Beber

I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
~Tom Jobim


A song by Brazilian composer Tom Jobim for Music Monday. The Portuguese lyrics (first video) are by Vinicius de Moraes and the English lyrics (second video) are by Norman Gimbel:





Flora Purim
Connie Evingson

3 comments:

jama said...

Thanks for the Jobim fix! I'm a big fan from way back. Never heard the English lyrics before.

Michelle Heidenrich Barnes said...

I really enjoyed these today, T. Thanks!

HWY said...

Certainly Brazilian! Really nice.