Note: this is a folk text in a Native American / First Nations language recorded by Roquete Pinto. Nheengatu is in the Tupi-Guarani language family, used by the Tupinambá tribe of Brazil.

Composition:

Set to music by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959), "Canide-Ioune-Sabath", 1926, from Três Poemas Indígenas, no. 1, based on an Indian theme collected by Jean de Léry in 1553

Text Authorship:

• from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Golden-Canindé-Bird Elegy", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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