Vai, azulão, azulão, companheiro, vai! vai ver minha ingrata. Diz que sem ela o sertão não é mai sertão! Ai! [Vôa]1, azulão, vai contar, companheiro, vai!
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View original text (without footnotes)Glossary:
Sertão = any remote area of Brazil, particularly in the north.
Text Authorship:
- by Manuel Bandeira (1886 - 1968), "Azulão" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Radamés Gnattali (1906 - 1988), "Azulão", 1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907 - 1993), "Vai, azulão", 1938, published 1944 [ voice and piano ], Nova Iorque: Assoc. Music. Publ., also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Renzo Massarani (1896 - 1975), "Azulão", 1942, published [1999] [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: FBN/ DIMAS [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jayme Rojas de Aragón y Ovalle (1894 - 1955), "Azulão", op. 21, published 1945 [ voice and piano ], São Paulo: Vitale [sung text not yet checked]
- by Achille Guido Picchi (b. 1951), "Azulão", op. 56 (1981), rev. 1992 and 1998, first performed 1984 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Theodore F. Fitch ; composed by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anne Evans) , "Bluebird", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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