A keresés eredménye

Stories to lull adults to sleep

Mangueira, clean the dust from the basements
Oh, clear the way for the heroes of the shanties
From the brazilwood that makes a country of Lecis1, Jamelões2
They're green and pink3, the crowds
 
Mangueira, clean the dust from the basements
Oh, clear the way for the heroes of the shanties
From the brazilwood that makes a country of Lecis, Jamelões
They're green and pink, the crowds
 
Brazil, my friend4
Let me tell you
The story that history doesn't tell
The flip side of the same place
The struggle we find ourselves in
 
Brazil, my baby
Mangueira has arrived
With verses that the books have erased
Since 15005 there has been more invasion than exploration
There's inky blood, bruising
Behind the venerated heroes
Women, Tamoios6, Mulattos
I want a country that is not in the picture frame
 
Brazil, your name is Dandara7
And your face is Kiriri8
It didn't come from the sky
Nor from the hands of Isabel9
Liberty is a dragon of the waters of Aracati10
 
Hail the caboclos de julho11
Who were steel in the years of iron12
Brazil, it's time
To hear the Marias13, Mahins14, Marielles15, Malês16
 

• 1. Leci Brandão, MPB singer
• 2. Jamelão, singer for Mangueira from 1949 to 2006
• 3. colors of the Mangueira school
• 4. 'nego' is a term of familiarity or endearment derived from 'negro' meaning black
• 5. Year that Europeans first arrived in Brazil
• 6. a Tupi people that were exterminated
• 7. Dandara, wife of Zumbi dos Palmares who fought against slavery
• 8. Confederation of the Cariris, an indigenous resistance movement in the late 17th century
• 9. Princess Isabel, who signed the abolition of slavery into law
• 10. Chico da Matilde, prominent abolitionist of the Northeast
• 11. mixed indigenous-white people who were prominent in the Independence of Bahia
• 12. reference to those who were tortured under the military dictatorship
• 13. Maria Filipa de Oliveira, figure in the Independence of Bahia
• 14. Luísa Mahin, mother of the abolitionist Luís Gama
• 15. Marielle Franco, politician executed for speaking out against police brutality
• 16. Muslim Africans who led the most important revolt in Bahia