Não sou barqueiro de vela, Mas sou um bom remador: No lago de São Lourenço Dei prova do meu valor! Remando contra a corrente, Ligeiro como a favor, Contra a neblina enganosa, Contra o vento zumbidor! Sou nortista destemido, Não gaúcho roncador: No lago de São Lourenço Dei prova do meu valor! Uma só coisa faltava No meu barco remador: Ver assentado na popa O vulto do meu amor... Mas isso era bom demais - Sorriso claro dos anjos, Graça de Nosso Senhor!
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Text Authorship:
- by Manuel Bandeira (1886 - 1968), "Desafio", written 1938 [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 Edino Krieger (b. 1928), "Desafio", 1955, published 1983 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: LK Produções Artísticas [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francisco Mignone (1897 - 1986), "Desafio", 1942, published 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Quatro líricas (1942/43), no. 4, São Paulo: Litero-Musical Tupy [sung text not yet checked]
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