The science of the art of capoeira

Vou esperar a lua voltar - Mestrando Charm

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Posted Wed, 08/18/2010 - 15:29 by FarofaCDOAtenas


This is a soulful capoeira song created by Mestrando Charm of Grupo Abada Capoeira. Mestrando Charm, aka Jorge Gomes Martins, has been training capoeira since 1976. He was recognised as a Mestrando in Grupo Abada in 1997. He teaches capoeira in Goiania, Brazil.

PORTUGUES

Vou esperar a lua voltar
Eu quero entrar na mata ê
Vou tirar madeira boa
pro meu berimbau fazer

Madeira boa é como amizade
Mais é difícil de se encontrar
A amizade eu guardo no peito
E da madeira vou fazer meu berimbau

A noite vem eu entro na mata
Lua clareia vou procurar
Jequitibá e Maçaranduba
O Guatambu eu devo achar

Se Mestre Bimba estivesse aqui
Pra me ensinar a escolher madeira
Eu entrava agora na mata
Tirava Ipê e Pau-Pereira

Na lua cheia vou colher os frutos
e na minguante vou tirar madeira
para fazer meu berimbau
para tocar na capoeira

Na velha África se usava o Ungo
Nas grandes festas religiosas
O Kingenge no dialeto umbundo
É o berimbau que conquistou o mundo

ENGLISH

I will wait for the moon to come back
I want to go into the woods
I will take good wood
to make my berimbau

Good wood is like friendship
But it is difficult to find
The friendship I keep in my heart
And of the wood I will make my berimbau

The night comes I enter the woods
The Moon shines I will look for
Jequitibá and Maçaranduba
The Guatambu I must find

If Mestre Bimba was here
To teach me to choose wood
I would have gone now into the woods
I would have taken Ipê and Pau-Pereira

In the full moon I will collect the fruits
and in the wane I will take wood
to make my berimbau
to play music in capoeira

In old Africa the Ungo was used
In the great religious festivities
The Kingenge* in the dialect Umbundo*
Is the berimbau that conquered the world

*umbundo: a dialect that is used in the central mountains of angola(http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbundu)
*Kingenge: except of the song's definition, kingenge was a powerful chief in africa according to http://www.jstor.org/pss/1800636
*Ipê, Pau-Pereira, Jequitibá, Maçaranduba and Guatambu are all species of tree found in Brazil. Ungo I beleive is a tree in Africa. Some of these species are suitable for making berimbau and a few have medicinal properties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabebuia
http://www.tropilab.com/paopereiratincture.html



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FarofaCDOAtenas's picture

plus you have to change the

by FarofaCDOAtenas - 08/19/2010 - 18:58

plus you have to change the sharing description in facebook since this is a version with mestrando charm singing :P

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Thanks man. Plus you put a

by FarofaCDOAtenas - 08/19/2010 - 18:51

Thanks man. Plus you put a better video from the one I had, wich by the ways has one more strophe that I wasn't aware of. so I took the liberty to update the lyrics and the translation of course.

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Nice one farofinha! I love

by cientista - 08/19/2010 - 16:56

Nice one farofinha! I love the level of detail you go into, I always learn something from your posts... and Mestrando Charm has an incredible voice

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