"Everything's over The dance has ended" "And I'm still dizzy" "I've danced with you Divine lady" "With my heart Bursting into flames" "Everything's over The dance has ended" "And I'm still dizzy" "I've danced with you Divine lady" "With my heart Bursting into flames" "I went crazy I was totally appalled" "When I saw you so close To a great friend of mine" "In the fever of the dance I felt such a strong emotion" "Devouring my heart Divine lady" "Everything's over The dance has ended" "And I'm still dizzy" "I've danced with you Divine lady" "With my heart Bursting into flames" "When I saw that The party was over" "And there was no happiness left" "I took revenge on the strings Of a troubador's lyre" "Condemning your love Divine lady" ""I've hesitated about whether I should start from the beginning... or from the end; that is, should I start by telling about my birth... or about my death?"" ""CARTOLA" " SAMBA LEGEND"" "I was born in Rio de Janeiro... at Rua... in the Catete borough, at Rua Ferreira Viana... in 1908, on October 11 th." "Back then, I was called Agenor de Oliveira." "Now I'm called Angenor, because I've noticed that when I got married." "I was getting my papers ready for the wedding and I saw there's an N... inbetween the A and the G. So I became Angenor." "I didn't want to open a bureaucratic can of worms, so I left it at that." "I was living in Catete, then I moved to Laranjeiras." "There were 2 Carnival ranchos there, União da Aliança and Arrepiados... which was green and pink." "I liked Arrepiados better." "Come, come to us Immortal God" "I come from the heart" "I'm the Carnival of spring" "The light that Sweeps loneliness away" "Come, come to us Immortal God" "Samba was born at Aunt Sadata's, in Pedra do Sal." "There's even an old samba that goes like this..." ""I went to a samba at Aunt Fé's house" "Samba became macumba From macumba, candomblé"" "My grandmother was a candomblé high priestess." "Hilária de Almeida, nicknamed Aunt Ciata... it was her who founded the first Carnival rancho in Brazil." "It was called Rosa Branca." "She was from Bahia, and at her house, sambistas gathered... the musicians from that time... the chorões." "Chorões." "Chorões are people who play choro, you know?" "That's what they're called." "Like Pixinguinha and such." "So they gathered there." "João da Baiana, Donga..." "It was forbidden, because we went to Penha... and whenever we were carrying a tambourine, a guitar... the police would surround us and take our tambourine... until I got a tambourine as a gift from Senator Pinheiro Machado." "That was when the police stopped coming after me." "Then the police let us beat the tambourine and play samba... because those who played samba..." "were considered scumbags." "Back then, we'd dance the samba like this." "With our feet, like this." "A lot of people say, "Samba came from Bahia, from Pernambuco"." "But samba came from Rio!" "Cariocas were the ones who mixed it all... creating the rhythm we know and love." "Samba is Carioca because samba created the Carioca way of life." "Carioca culture." "Because samba, don't forget this, it came from Bahia to Rio." ""Pelo Telefone", the first samba." "Everyone is dancing the samba." "Really beautiful." " Having a good time, Donga?" " I'm speechless." ""Pelo Telefone", the first samba, recorded in 1917... when you hear it, you notice it has maxixe characteristics." "The police chief Told me over the phone" "That on Carioca There's a gambling joint" "The police chief Told me over the phone" "That on Carioca There's a gambling joint" "I started to take an interest in samba... ever since I moved to Mangueira when I was 11." "I got there... and I already was a Bohemian at heart." "It was in my soul, in my blood." "My dad played cavaquinho in Catete." "I saw people playing samba, but I was still a kid, I couldn't butt in." "I appreciated it from a distance until morning came." "When I was 15, my mom died..." "I had a fight with my dad and he kicked me out." "My dad moved out, along with my sisters, who were underage... and I was left alone in the slums, without family, without anybody... but I still remember something he said to me when he moved out." "Actually, not to me, to a neighbor:" "He said he was leaving the slums... but he'd leave an Oliveira behind to cover his family with shame." "Inhabited by simple people So poor they have only the sun" "That shines on everyone How can you still sing, Mangueira?" "I'll have you know We don't want anything else" "At night, a silver moon" "Silently Listens to our songs" "And up above The Southern Cross" "Hears our prayers" "And we proud ourselves In being the first, and champions" "I declare that happiness" "Lives here And the other samba schools" "Cry even Jealous of your position" "My Mangueira You are a reception hall" "Here, you embrace your enemy" "Like he was a brother" "Inhabited by simple people So poor they have only the sun" "That shines on everyone How can you still sing, Mangueira?" "He practically lived on trains." "He'd catch the train uptown... and he'd come and go." "He made a living running errands... for a high priestess." "He was her assistant, her cambone... and it was him who placed the ritual offerings... who placed everything at the crossroads." "He even got himself arrested doing that." "When I was 11, I was working." "I got a job at a printing shop." "That was just like slavery." "Morning till night, plus overtime..." "I wanted to hang around... so I'd go out, and then I'd see the construction workers... whistling to the women who passed by... and I'd say, "Now that's a real job, look"." "Carlos Cachaça is my friend... my godfather..." "I joined Mangueira when I was 11." "That's where I met him." "A bum, a gambler, a drinker... but, despite all his debauchery, a learned fellow." "I began writing songs with Cartola..." "POET AND SONGWRITER when he was about 14... because there are things that weren't preserved... and that disappeared, some songs we wrote together... because back then he'd write a line, I'd write another..." "He grew up." "Have you seen him?" "From that time." "I don't want to Love anyone anymore" "I wasn't happy, fate wouldn't let me With my first love" "It died like a flower Withering before full bloom" "Leaving its thorns To tear at my heart" "No, I don't want to" "I don't want to Love anyone anymore" "I wasn't happy, fate wouldn't let me With my first love" "It died like a flower Withering before full bloom" "Leaving its thorns To tear at my heart" "He was a Bohemian." "He'd go buy groceries and come back 3 days later." "That Bohemian enough for ya?" "The cabbage cooked inside the bag." "That's the way Carlos Cachaça was." "Near Mangueira there was a red-light district... and that was paradise for him." "In that paradise, he managed to catch... every venereal disease then known to mankind." "Since he was only 17, going on 18... and totally ravaged by syphilis... a married lady... soon took pity on that boy." "She was eight or ten years his senior... and she'd show up there, tidy up his little room... bring him some food... and you know how it is, some food here, some food there... she ended up feeding him another kinda food, if you get my drift." "They say it cured Alexandre when he had one foot in the grave." "I dropped by yesterday." "You can't imagine how strong he is." "Works day and night, no one could tell he was sick." "Deolinda was 25, Cartola was 17... but at 25, back then... she was ravaged by poverty, you know?" "Almost an old lady." "When her husband... got wind of that situation... he paid a visit to Cartola to demand an explanation." "Darling, are you here already?" "Good idea leaving the party early." "You know, dear, I am very suspicious." "So Cartola got a wife, a daughter, a father-in-law... all that very early in his life, when he was 17." "Mangueira had about six divisions, all very well-behaved." "They'd choose only family guys, really upright folks... people who didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't flirt... and we, the unruly ones, would form our own all-male division." "I'd always call Nenê, because he was ready for everything... ready to kick ass, get his ass kicked, break, destroy, anything." "Cartola came up with the initiative of gathering all the divisions... under one flag, so much so that the first samba... which Mangueira, the samba school he founded... played in the parade, was called "Chega de Demandas"." "Enough quarreling, enough" "Because we're a team And we gotta win" "We're from the First Station" "All hail the slums of Mangueira" "Enough quarreling, enough" "Because we're a team And we gotta win" "We're from the First Station" "All hail the slums of Mangueira" "I was the one who called it First Station, and I chose the colors... because I'd joined a rancho, in Laranjeiras... called Arrepiado." "It had the same colors." "Years went by before the divisions adopted the name "samba school"." "At first, the only samba school was Deixa Falar... because the sambistas, the masters, were at Estácio." "Actually, I've founded the first samba school... called Deixa Falar... which was born in 1928... and paraded in the Carnival of 1929... in the Estácio de Sá borough." "Attention!" "We're being visited by our friends... from the glorious samba school Portela." "With the creation of samba schools, the favelas and poor neighborhoods... couldn't be accused anymore of being barbaric, violent... uncivilized places." "Those places became highly civilized." "Back then, sambas were slow, calm songs... dance-hall sambas." "When a new samba was to be released... the songwriter would pass the lyrics around." "The shepherdesses formed a circle, leaving a space in the middle... where only the maestro and one of his assistants would enter." "Then came two guitars, a cavaquinho and a tambourine... playing the newly-released samba." "No one was allowed to sing it." "They only could sway their bodies slowly to the rhythm." "They'd sing to exhaustion, and when they saw that the shepherdesses... were anxious, because by then they'd already learned the song... the maestro blew a long note on his whistle." "Then the choir kicked in... along with the drums, which were quiet till then." "It was breathtaking." "Then everyone sang, and they really sang from the heart... because it's like a stallion when he's fenced in." "Release him and he'll run like crazy." "There isn't" "In this world a richer And nicer scenery" "With so much splendor" "The hills" "Where water springs out" "What a sublime painting By a holy painter" "Ask the forgotten poet" "Who was it that Painted this canvas" "With such a wealthy of details" "The proud peasant will answer" "It was God, it was the Master" "Who created my Brazil" "My Brazil" "My Brazil" "There isn't" "In this world a richer And nicer scenery" "With so much splendor" "The hills" "Where water springs out" "What a sublime painting By a holy painter" "Ask the forgotten poet" "Who was it that Painted this canvas" "With such a wealthy of details" "The proud peasant will answer" "It was God, it was the Master" "Who created my Brazil" "My Brazil" "My Brazil" "Nowadays, you sing a samba... you wrote it and sang it yesterday, and today it's forgotten already." "It wasn't like that back then." "You'd sing it all your life." "Only a few hours left Till I'll dance the samba" "Who has never sold a song?" "Back in our day, was there a single songwriter who didn't sell songs?" "Fantastic, boy!" "Nice!" "You wanna sell it to me?" "I'll pay you 500 bucks." " Okay." "But only because it's you." " The thing is, I'm broke right now." "Don't worry, pal." "You're my buddy, you're a fine customer." "You can have the samba and pay me later." ""Cartola, come here." "Mário Richard wants to buy one of your sambas. "" "It's settled, then." "You'll sing the samba for him, he'll record it... and it'll be a hit." "It'll be released on Carnival." "Now... there's only one catch." "I promised him co-authorship." ""What?" "Buy a samba?" "Are you crazy, pal?" "We'll all end up in jail!" "Who's ever heard of selling a samba?" "Who's gonna buy a samba?" "What does the man want a samba for?" "!"" "Need some money?" "There you go." "My partner." "He said, "How much do you want for the samba?" I pulled the guy... to a corner and I said, "I'll ask for some 50 mil-réis"." ""Ask him for 500"." "And I'm like, "You crazy?"" "Wait, Espírito." "I've got something to tell you." " You... need to give up authorship." " Come again?" "So they bought our sambas... because they made a lot of money off them." "Sold a lot of records." "So I did sell my sambas, but I wanted them to bear my name:" ""Samba by Agenor de Oliveira"." "Nelson Cavaquinho?" "I met him at Mangueira." "He showed up there, and he was a policeman... so we became friends, real buddies, you know?" "He was already writing sambas." "One day he said, "Cartola, would you like to do the 2nd half of a samba?"" "And I'm like, "I'll do it"." "After about one month..." "I ran into another policeman who Nelson had introduced me to... and he said, "Cartola, I've got a wonderful samba here." "Wanna hear it?" And I'm like, "Yeah"." "So he sang it." ""I'll sing it"." "And he sang Nelson's samba. "But the 2nd half is mine. "" ""Well, now it's mine, I bought it off Nelson. "" "So I'm like, "I'll never do business with you again." "I write a samba, you sell it and you don't even tell me about it?"" "But I didn't wanna argue, so I left it at that." "Cartola thinks I sold his samba:" ""Nelson sold that song"." "I sold the song." "People think I sold the whole song." "I just sold my half." "I should've said, "Want me to sell your half?" "I sold mine, I was broke. "" "Who got lucky Who got lucky" "I've decided that my heart Is strong enough to resist this love" "And that the strongest pains Weren't enough" "To punish Dolores' ungratefulness" "People worried, back then, about what Brazil meant... about the novelty and originality of Brazilian culture... if such things even existed, but back then there was also... a political climate which propitiated such a debate." "Rio de Janeiro was the capital of the Republic... a Republic which had just been created in Brazil." "But the Revolution of 1930 was already blossoming... and Getúlio Vargas was defining the Brazil we know nowadays." "When the cultural elite began looking for the Brazilian people... the samba schools, the sambistas, said, "You want Brazilian people?" "We're the Brazilian people, or, at the very least... we're capable of representing the Brazilian people. "" "Go, go, my longing" "Golden longing" "Go tell her" "That I can't go on like this" "Go, go, my longing" "Leave me alone" "Go, go, my longing" "Golden longing" "Go tell her" "That I can't go on like this" "Go, go, my longing" "Leave me alone" "In Lapa, in the 1930s... at Rua Joaquim Silva there was a bar, the Olímpia Bar... which already served tap beer back then." "So the gang would meet there." "Old men, gigolos... teenagers, ladies, and the young girls... flying over the lamps like gypsy moths." "So we'd stay there, drinking, waiting for things to get better." "The Bohemians were me, Chico Alves, Noel Rosa... who was very young at the time, Aracy de Almeida..." "Otávio dos Prazeres... and Cai N'Água, who was also a Bohemian... then there was Cartola, there was Nelson Cavaquinho..." "And there were also the hellraisers, the ones who'd carry knives... and menace the girls who used to hang around that... that... that kind of a dive." "It was beautiful." "So many moths." "Oh!" "My Lapa days!" "Tell me" "What did I do to you?" "I won't" "Be so ungrateful to you" "Someone spread stories To weaken our friendship" "Don't you believe them They can't be true" "Don't you believe those lies" "I was very close to maestro Villa-Lobos." "It was then that a ship arrived bringing Stokovsky's orchestra... and they wanted to record some Brazilian rhythms... chorinho, macumba and all that." "And they wanted a samba songwriter." "So the maestro introduced me to them." "And I, with my ugly voice, proved my worth to them." "People see me smiling And they think I'm happy" "My smile is only a consolation" "Because I keep inside So no one can hear them" "The mournful cries of my heart" "People see me smiling And they think I'm happy" "My smile is only a consolation" "Because I keep inside So no one can hear them" "The mournful cries of my heart" "Leopold Stokovsky came to South America aboard the Uruguay liner." "He came in the name of the famous "friendly neighborhood" policy... which the US were implementing and also made Carmem Miranda go there." "What did you say your name was?" "The tico-tico, the tico-tico" "The tico-tico, tico-tico, tico-tico The tico-tico, tico-tico" "That bird is back again That tico-tico's eating my cornmeal" "If that bird needs to eat It should chase worms in the orchard" "Please get it out of the barn He's gonna eat all the cornmeal" "Get that tico-tico off my cornmeal There are so many other foods" "I've already tried everything I've offered it some bird seed" "I've tried a cat A scarecrow and a cage" "But it thinks cornmeal Is the best food there is" "That bird is back again" "That tico-tico's eating my cornmeal" "If that bird needs to eat It should chase worms in the orchard" "That bird is back again" "That tico-tico's eating my cornmeal" "If that bird needs to eat It should chase worms in the orchard" "But he used to do some shows, and he formed..." "Trio Cariocas with Heitor dos Prazeres and Paulo da Portela." "In the 1940s, things got out of hand... because of Deolinda's death and because he left Mangueira, I think." "You are my Brazil on every field Be it science or art" "Portentous and proud" "The men who wrote your history" "Conquered their glories" "In triumphant epics" "And I want, in these poor verses" "Revive them, glorifying" "Their names" "Take them to the Olympus Of the great immortals" "Because they deserve it" "I don't really need To elevate them any more" "You've got scientists And you've got culture too" "In these rude words In this poor man's ode" "Other songwriters came... and little by little both became ostracized, which wasn't natural... but was predictable." "So Cartola and his great partner, Carlos Cachaça... began to be accused of being passé." "Yes, there must be Forgiveness for me" "Otherwise I don't know How I'll end up" "To have a woman by my side I've even made vows" "I ended up falling in love But I wasn't happy" "So, in a fit of rage, I've raised My arms to the sky and blasphemed" "And now everyone's against me" "Everyone makes mistakes There are no exceptions" "And when they open their eyes They're all forgiven" "Why is it that I, Lord After my first mistake" "Have to be so unhappy And fight against all humanity?" "Game over." "The game ends with Uruguay's victory!" "Anyway, Cartola fell in love with her." "Her son was a drug dealer." "I'll explain that to you later... if you're willing to listen to me." "He lived in Nilópolis..." "People say he was ostracized, they say he became a drunk." "He had meningitis." "He gave up recording and he gave up Mangueira." " He was presumed dead." " He even moved to Caju..." "Put the old man's portrait back Put it back in its place ...until Zica went after him." "That's when they brought him back to Mangueira and away from Donália." "That's when he began going out with my mother." "God, great God" "I know my fate has been sealed" "By Your hands Great God" "I've come back on my knees" "To beseech You" "Forgive me I know I've made a mistake" "Forgive me" "In the name of Mary" "And never again" "I'll talk out of turn" "Let me fix you up." " Gimme a kiss." " There's people here." "Come!" "We were childhood friends." "Me and Cartola grew up in the slums." "Then he got married to a girl, I also married another guy..." "I left the slums, and we were separated for a long time." "After a while, I became a widow and he became a widower too." "One day, we bumped into each other at my sister's... and he sweet-talked me a lot." "I was alone too..." "The moment is coming To go to the altar" "Both of us" "But before the wedding We need to think about" "What comes after" "It's the end of our adventures" "Enough looking around" "Neither of us should have Any illusions" "We need to exchange ideas And change our minds" "Both of us" "And if we do that We'll be happy" "Afterwards" "Nothing else interests us" "Let's be indifferent" "Only both of us, just us" "Eternally" "The moment is coming To go to the altar" "Both of us" "But before the wedding We need to think about" "What comes after" "It's the end of our adventures" "Enough looking around" "Neither of us should have Any illusions" "We need to exchange ideas And change our minds" "Both of us" "And if we do that We'll be happy" "Afterwards" "Nothing else interests us" "Let's be indifferent" "Only both of us, just us" "Eternally" "He never had any children, biologically speaking." "He adopted, during his life..." "he affected many people's lives." "My mother had me at Zica's house." "Vilma, Zica's youngest daughter... asked my mother to go away and leave me there." "I was seven." "My dad retired... and went to live in Queimados, where he had a chicken farm... and when I was nine, my mom died." "It was about that time that Zica started raising me." "Creuza, too, called him "Dad"." "She was Deolinda's goddaughter." "My mom was a dancer for Herivelto Martins... she traveled a lot, so I'd stay with them." "Neuma and her sisters, when their father died... he'd asked Zica and Cartola to look after them." "I've only had one love During all my youth" "Today I still miss Those happy times" "The guy who brought Cartola back, professionally, was Sérgio Porto..." "Stanislaw Ponte Preta, but before that..." "Lan, the caricaturist, had already given it an important try." "He'd taken Cartola to several radio shows, he'd tried... to provide him with some contacts at record companies..." "I used to hang out at Vilarinho, where the whole gang gathered:" "Ary Barroso, Sílvio Caldas, Stanislaw Ponte Preta..." "Fernando Lobo, Fernando Sabino, Paulo Mendes Campos..." "Vinícius de Moraes." "I brought Cartola there, along with Zica." "But he'd make an appointment and Cartola would get drunk and miss it." "Lan gave up on him, eventually." "The thing got back on track again only when Sérgio Porto... had the famous meeting with him at the Atlântica Garage, in Copacabana." "Early one morning, I finished washing the cars and all that..." "I closed the garage and I stopped for a coffee... at a bar in Ipanema, and that was where I ran into my late friend... the lamented Sérgio Porto." "He saw me in a jumpsuit... wearing flip-flops, all wet, and he was horrified." ""What's that, Cartola?" "What are you doing here?"" "I said, "Sérgio, I work in that building, washing cars... and looking after the garage from 6 PM till 6 AM."" "He was shocked by all that." "If it's true that the voice of the people is the voice of God... yesterday God was mad as hell." "Well, Sérgio's firepower was much stronger than Lan's." "Sérgio was Brazil's most important writer, back then... and a request from him was an order." "Back then, the Mayrink Veiga radio station was going strong... and he had some shows there, together with Haroldo Barbosa... so he brought me there." "I began doing some shows... and started recording again, and my life began to improve." "Me and my guitar" "We're begging For your return" "If only you knew how much I cry And how I pray" "That our failure Becomes a success" "Despite everything I still hope" "That your farewell party Will turn into a welcome party" "I've lost so many loves And I didn't feel a thing" "But it feels like a century has passed Without your presence" "Mixed amidst The precious stones of the world" "With only a glance I can tell you apart" "Cartola lived at Rua dos Andradas... where now there's a subway station." " Glorinha!" "Let's go to the beach!" " No." "I won't go." "The Samba School Association used to hold meetings there... so they paid for all the expenses... and they needed a janitor." "The janitors were Cartola and Zica." "So they started doing samba gatherings there." "People who came to watch... brought bottles of whiskey, bought beer crates at some bar... and hung around there, eating, while Zica prepared hors-d'oeuvres." "And there wasn't a single open pub around." "The only one was at the corner of Rua Senhor dos Passos with Andradas." "He'd always hand me a plastic bag and some money and ask me to go... and buy beer there." "That was all I could want from life, you know?" "One day, Zé Keti approached me and he said, "Look..." "Cartola is starting a band... formed by songwriters from samba schools. "" "My band was formed by Jair do Cavaquinho, Elton Medeiros..." "Ernesto Cardim, from Salgueiro, Xica da Silva's author..." "Nelson Sargento, Oscar Bigode, from Portela, Zé Cruz, from Mangueira..." ""Would you like to join them?" Are you kidding?" "I am the samba" "I am the voice Of the slums, yes, sir" "I want to show my worth To the world" "I am the king of the yards" "I am the samba" "I dropped by at Cartola's, after the band was over, one afternoon... and we were talking." "Suddenly he said..." ""Let's write a samba. " And he put his guitar on his lap." "So we started writing a song... which, as I recall, ended with these lines:" ""You dreamt of a castle and precious stones" "Precious stones you could never have"" "Then Renato Agustini showed up and we said, "We're glad you're here... 'cause we'd like to show you a samba we wrote just now. "" "And we showed him this samba." ""You didn't write that samba." "If you are sambistas and you really know how to write a samba..." "I wanna see you two write a samba right here, right now!"" "I'll sing a bit of it to you." "Cartola picked up his guitar and he began to sing..." "Always smiling" "I intend to live" "My life" "In 40 minutes, this song was finished." "Because crying" "I've seen my youth" "Go to waste" "Always smiling" "I intend to live" "My life" "Because crying" "I've seen my youth" "Go to waste" "The storm is over The sun's gonna rise" "It's the end of this longing I'll have someone else to love" "Always smiling" "I intend to live" "My life" "Because crying" "I've seen my youth" "Go to waste" "The storm is over The sun's gonna rise" "It's the end of this longing I'll have someone else to love" "In 1963, I began "Ganga Zumba", which was my first feature film." "Watch your tongue." "You were born in a ship's hold... amidst shackles and a lot of tears." "I put him and Mrs. Zica in the "Ganga Zumba" crew." "Of course, I knew Cartola wasn't an actor, so I couldn't..." "That's why he does only a bit part in the movie." "Sororó's going to the freedom fields." "He deserves to go." "Go fetch the people, all the blacks who are scattered, suffering." "Take Ganga Zumba to Palmares to make our people happy forever." "May Olorum protect you, Brother Salustiano." "Saruê." "I've known very few people in Brazilian culture... who had such a princely behavior... such a proud attitude towards life... as superior and, at the same time, as stoic as Cartola's." "One, two, three!" "Go, my sadness" "And tell her that" "Without her I can't go on" "I met Carlinhos Lira and he made a pact of sorts with me:" "I'd take him to the samba schools and he'd take me to the suburbs... so people could back me up." "That was when bossa nova was beginning... and all that, and he introduced me to Nara Leão." "They had been segregated by bossa nova for being old-fashioned... too traditional, and now they were being appreciated as modern... for their creative audacity... for their harmonic, melodic audacity." "In 1963... in Rio de Janeiro, a music hall was created... for the first time, and it was called Zicartola." "Zi-cartola, you know?" "Zica and Cartola, from Mangueira... and Zica, Mangueira's wife." "Hence the name Zicartola." "We stayed open for two years." "It was the toast of the town." "Zicartola was where it was at." "We'd open at 10 PM, but at 8 PM, people were already there." "They'd only leave around 5, 6 AM." "I had to use two toothpicks to hold my eyelids open." "I can't do anything" "When this longing seizes me" "Inspiration is gone" "I feel my soul deserted" "There's an emptiness in my chest" "And in fact I feel An emptiness in my chest" "When I miss your caresses" "The nights are long And I feel colder" "I try to drown with alcohol" "The memory of you" "But I realize how ridiculous" "My revenge is" "I'll follow my friends' advice" "And I guarantee I'll never drink anymore" "And with time, this awful longing" "Will come to pass" "I can't do anything" "When this longing seizes me" "Inspiration is gone" "I feel my soul deserted" "There's an emptiness in my chest" "And in fact I feel An emptiness in my chest" "When I miss your caresses" "The nights are long And I feel colder" "I try to drown with alcohol" "The memory of you" "But I realize how ridiculous" "My revenge is" "I'll follow my friends' advice" "And I guarantee I'll never drink anymore" "And with time, this awful longing" "Will come to pass" "I looked for Heitor, Heitor dos Prazeres... to do a caricature for the menu cover... and that became Zicartola's trademark." "The first time Clementina de Jesus sang at a venue... with an audience and all that, it was at Zicartola." "I was invited to be the venue's artistic director, so..." "I'd invite a lot of sambistas... songwriters and all that, and it was there the debut... of Paulo César, now known as Paulinho da Viola... a nickname, all modesty aside, that your friend Zé Keti gave him." "Forget our love" "Try and forget it" "Because in this world" "Anything happens" "And it so happens That I don't know" "How to love anymore" "You'll cry, you'll suffer" "And you don't deserve it" "But it happens" "It so happens that my heart" "Grew cold" "And our love nest" "Is empty" "If I only could go on Pretending that I love you" "Oh!" "If I only could" "But I can't I shouldn't do it" "That won't happen" "I think you're exaggerating the effects of the Revolution." "Sometimes I even think you're tired of me." "Someone would stand up, like that, out of the blue... just like in a meeting at a university... and deliver a vibrant speech, then they sat down and the samba began." "It was the newspaper" "That said" "That the cost of life Would go up 400%" "I tell you what I read I don't tell you what I see" "Because what I see I can't tell you" "I think the people need to eat" "I think the people need to eat" "Zicartola was a... a place where a lot of good ideas were born... like, for instance, Rosas de Ouro, which was born there... with all those beautiful sambas we got to know... just like the Opinião show sort of began there." "João do Vale, Zé Keti and Nara for Opinião." "And Rosas de Ouro, there were Clementina de Jesus..." "Paulinho da Viola, me, Nelson Sargento..." "Jair do Cavaquinho and Oscarzinho do Salgueiro." "And Aracy Cortes, fresh out of the burlesque." "Every big success brings with it a lot of headaches." "You had to stomach people who'd go there because it was en vogue... because Zicartola was fashionable." "And another thing:" "That was just too much work." "We'd work all day long, all night long." "We rested only on Mondays." "Cartola could've gotten rich." "But business wasn't in his bloodstream... so his friends ate for free, drank for free..." "He needed a manager." "And the rest is history, you know?" "If you don't keep an eye on your manager... he'll manage to leave you penniless." "That was when we had to move out of Zicartola and go live... in Bento Ribeiro, with Cartola's dad, Sebastião de Oliveira." "I'd like to introduce you to my father." "Funny how, when I was a kid..." "I couldn't do anything right." "Everything I did was bad." "I didn't like to study, I was a rascal..." " He didn't like to study." " No." "So he began tutoring me at home." "When he got home at night, he'd tutor me for two hours." "But I couldn't pay much attention, because he'd give me some work... and while I was studying, he'd play the guitar... so I didn't know whether to read or to learn how to play the guitar." "What do you want me to sing for you?" " A samba." " But which one do you like best?" " That... "O Mundo É um Moinho"." " Okay." "It's still early, love" "You haven't begun yet" "To understand life" "And you're already saying" "You're leaving" "Without even knowing which path" "You'll follow" "Pay attention, dear" "Even though I know" "You mind's made up" "On every corner You'll lose a bit of your life" "Pretty soon" "You won't be the same anymore" "Listen to me, my love" "Pay attention, the world" "Is like a mill" "That's going to grind Your selfish dreams to bits" "That's going to turn Your illusions to dust" "Pay attention, dear" "From every love You'll inherit only cynicism" "Before you know You'll be on the edge" "Of an abyss you dug With your own feet" "Okay." "I imagine it must have been, at the same time... a very beautiful reunion, but also... it must have been, deep inside Cartola, very painful." "Zicartola had closed down... he was full of debts and back at his father's house." "I don't know how that movie played out in his head." "The plot wasn't very nice." "What's that, Paulo?" "For God's sake." "It can't be." "You wouldn't do such a thing." "I've got my kids here, Paulo." "For God's sake." "You can't live without a mother." "Yes, I've had" "Another great love before you Yes, I've had another" "Her dreams were my dreams, and so" "We lived in peace" "Our home" "AGAINST CENSORSHIP" "NOT ASHAMED OF CHANCHADA Our home was always full of joy" "I was so happy there" "The same happiness I have by your side" "Yes, I've had another" "But to compare it to your love Would be too much" "So I'll shut up" "Because I don't want to hurt you" "Yes, I've had" "Another great love before you Yes, I've had another" "Her dreams were my dreams, and so" "We lived in peace" "Our home" "Our home was always full of joy" "I was so happy there" "The same happiness I have by your side" "Yes, I've had another" "But to compare it to your love Would be too much" "So I'll shut up" "Because I don't want to hurt you" "Because I don't want to hurt you" "Because I don't want to hurt you" "Zica was down here and she was asking around... because she really wanted to move back to Mangueira... so Mom hired workers, she found the materials... and Cartola built about 80% or 90% of the house himself... building it around another house... and then tearing the old house down;" "it was unheard of at the time." "This is Cartola, old Bohemian, old songwriter... back from recording his life at the Image and Sound Museum." " How are you, Cartola?" " I'm fine, thank God." "What was your all-time greatest hit?" "Until today, my greatest hit was "Divina Dama"... the first samba I've recorded, in 1932." " Who sang it?" " Francisco Alves." " What about now?" " My latest hit... was "O Sol Nascerá", sung by Nara Leão." "Well, if Cartola was alive... it'd be time for him to hop on this train and go to the Ministry." "He worked at the Ministry of Agriculture... where he got himself a job as a clerk." "The minister's son said..." ""Dad, did you know one of your employees is a celebrity?" "This is Cartola!"" "So the minister requested that Cartola worked at his office... serving coffee." "That meant Cartola worked from 11 AM till 2 PM." "That really pissed some people off." ""The guy comes here... "" "Bygone times, never forgotten" "Are painful to remember" "It is with sadness that I recall" "Distant things That won't come back" "A samba school on Praça Onze" "An eyewitness" "And nearby, scales" "Where gangsters danced the samba" "Little by little, our samba" "Refined itself, unbeknownst to us" "To high society halls" "It was admitted without ceremony" "Doesn't belong To the square anymore" "It isn't danced in a yard" "Triumphant, it's gone" "Seeking fame abroad" "Very well represented By the inspiration" "Of genius artists" "Our samba, our humble samba" "From conquer to conquer" "Managed to get into The Opera House" "After roaming the universe" "In the same clothes It wore when it left" "It paraded before The Duchess of Kent at Itamarati" "And that's why I call now my friend... the great songwriter from Mangueira, Cartola." "Cartola, my friend." "He's so cute." "If you happen to interview Nuno Veloso... tell him he owes me a beer crate." "He bet I wouldn't be able... to produce an LP with Cartola." "Thank you for remembering my name, Elizeth." "I wanted to record Cartola the way he was." "Like in my other records, I tried to capture the sound of that moment." "The storm is over The sun's gonna rise" "It's the end of this longing I'll have someone else to love" "So one day I was doing my famous pub circuit... hitting Zé's, then Alemão's... and I was heading home, stopping by at Riviera to chat with Renato... and first I went to Jogral." "I was totally wasted already." "That was when I saw Aluísio Falcão." "I dropped on my knees and said..." ""Aluísio, let me produce Cartola's record, for God's sake. "" "And he was like, "Okay." "You'll do Cartola's record." "But let's talk tomorrow, because now we're both drunk. "" "After you've recorded it, there's no going back." " You almost pissed me off!" " He likes everything to be perfect." "Then he won't be happy today." "May I go fuck myself now?" "Maestro, don't go away, otherwise I'm fucked." "It took about five months to be released... because when I brought the master tape to São Paulo... one of the recording company's partners, Marcus, didn't like it." "He said he heard dogs barking." "That really pissed me off." "All because of this cuíca." "Marçal's." "The one his father gave him, made of wood." "He gave it to me afterwards." "But when Maurício Kubrusly wrote, in his review in "Jornal da Tarde":" ""The Best Record Of The Year Is Ready"... then he started liking the record and he wanted to meet Cartola." "Cartola, sing that samba of yours, "Alegria"!" "That's right, I remember." "I'll sing that samba." "Joy That was what I was missing" "Some faint hope I've already found" "You're so full of caresses But leave me alone" "I don't wanna see you anymore" " Joy" " That was what I was missing" "Some faint hope I've already found" "You're so full of caresses But leave me alone" "I don't wanna see you anymore" "I know that your hugs and kisses" "Are nothing more" "Than pure hypocrisy" "Since you're not sincere" "I'm gonna leave you Someday" "Joy Like it?" "Joy That was what I was missing" "Some faint hope I've already found" "You're so full of caresses But leave me alone" "I don't wanna see you anymore" " Joy" " That was what I was missing" "Some faint hope" "HATS OFF TO CARTOLA I've already found" "You're so full of caresses But leave me alone" "I don't wanna see you anymore" "THE MASTER'S TIMELESS SONG I know that your hugs and kisses" "Are nothing more" "Than pure hypocrisy" "Since you're not sincere" "I'm gonna leave you Someday" "Joy Like it?" "I think he got recognition, and I think he liked it..." "I think he liked that." "He liked the fact that he was doing shows... but not because of all the ass-licking." "Cartola used to say that his life... could be compared to a boxing match." "He'd suffered his whole life, but in the end he'd won." " Okay." "Shall we?" " Let's go." "My heart is beating" "Full of hope again" "What about that one with the mill?" "How's that?" " You can sing the first one." " Yes." " But I don't know about the second." " Yes." "I don't know how it came out." "You can listen to it, but I don't think it'll work for you." "Why do you say it's difficult?" "I think it's much slower than this one." " Slower?" " Yes." "My heart is beating" "Full of hope again" "Because summer is ending" "At last" "I go down in the garden" "And I'm sure I should cry" "Because I know You don't want to come back" "To me" "I complain to the roses" "That's foolish, roses don't talk" "Roses simply exhale" "The perfume they steal from you" "You should come" "And look into my sad eyes" "And then maybe We'd dream the same dreams" "At last" "Everyone recorded it, except Roberto Carlos... because he said that Cartola said that roses don't talk... but roses had talked to him." "Who would you like to hear singing one of your songs one day?" "Well, I was in São Paulo when they said that this lad... what's his name?" "Roberto Carlos, was gonna record "O Mundo É um Moinho"." "I'd like him to record it." "I'd be very pleased." "Attention, Roberto Carlos, wherever you are:" "A request from Cartola is almost an order." "I get up at 5 AM." "I water my plants and go buy the newspaper at 7." "I sit down with the newspaper, a beer and a cognac." "After that, he'd go buy groceries, everything." "And then he'd sleep." "And we all respected that." "He'd entertain guests only after 2 PM." "One day, I came to his home and I said, "Where's Cartola?"" "And she's like, "He's sleeping"." "I'm like, "Go wake him up"." ""No, you go wake him up!" So I went, I was seeing double anyway." "I'd knocked back a few already." ""Cartola, Cartola!"" ""What?" "I came here to hear you play guitar. "" "He got up, he looked at me... and then he said, "I don't believe this!"" "Compare the songs he recorded with and without dentures." "I'll tell you:" "He sang better without dentures." "But he had his vanity, you know?" "He'd carry the dentures in the pocket of his jacket... so you'd often see him doing a gesture like this..." "He'd say, "I've heard a photographer is coming"." "There was a time when we used to drink, at Rua dos Andradas... at some kiosks there, we'd drink a lot of pau-pereira." "I'd joke around with him, I'd drink the pau-pereira and then say..." ""I dunno how you black folks can drink this stuff." "Gimme another one. "" "In the morning, the ashtray was full of cigarette butts." "All night long, you could see his cigarette burning." "His nose was like that because of a plastic surgery left unfinished." "The surgeon ran into him at a show, a while after that, and said..." ""Never tell anyone I did surgery on you, or you'll ruin my career. "" "His hands looked like what they were, construction worker's hands... and I've done a lot of caricatures of Cartola, a lot... but this one is really my favorite... because that's exactly what he looks like." "Those rough hands... the cigarette placed between these two fingers... as he played the guitar." "When Carnival was getting near, he wanted to vanish from Mangueira... because the first thing reporters always asked was..." ""Why were you nicknamed Cartola?" That would always piss him off." "I really like Mangueira, but Mangueira is a very noisy place." "Especially since I live near the samba school." "When they're doing rehearsals... or meetings, there's always a lot of people looking for me... and then, before Carnival, since my wife's one of the directors... the house's full of children, women choosing costumes, shoes... high heels, I can't even take a nap." "So I decided to go to Jacarepaguá to rest a little." "It's impossible this spring, I know" "Impossible, because I'll be away" "But thinking about our love" "Our sincere love" "Oh!" "If only I had autonomy" "If I could, I'd scream" ""I won't go, I don't want to"" "They've managed to enslave A poor heart" "We'll need a new Abolition" "To set me free again" "If I could, I'd scream, love" "If I could, I'd fight, love" "I won't go" "I don't want to" "The day he came for Dad's burial... we were having lunch when I noticed this lump on his neck." "So I said, "Grandpa, what's that lump?" And he said..." ""I don't know, that thing's been there for a while now... but it really doesn't bother me." "I can't stop my tour now." "When I get back, I'll take care of it. "" "Then I said, "Better have someone look at it now if it's been growing. "" ""Don't worry, I can always replace my neck with a wooden one. "" "Cartola was recoverd at Cardoso Fontes Hospital on the 12th... and then transferred to Andaraí Hospital." "In a good mood, today he went back to his home in Jacarepaguá... escorted by his wife, Zica, his granddaughter Nilcemar... and his godson Bira da Mangueira." " Cartola, how are you feeling?" " Thank God, I'm still strong." "So Mangueira can count on you for this Carnival?" "No, I'll never do another Carnival parade." " Why not, Cartola?" " I won't even watch it." "I don't want to anymore." "I've had enough of Carnival." "Dawn is coming" "Leaves are blowing" "And the winter of my days is here" "Bursting forth" "And the dreams of the past" "Of the past are present" "In the love" "That never grows old" "I've got peace" "And she's got peace" "Our lives" "Hard lives" "MANGUEIRA IS PEOPLE Crooked paths" "Amidst too many flowers and thorns" "I don't miss anymore" "Anything I've done" "In the winter of my days" "Oh God, I feel happy" "Dawn is coming" "Leaves are blowing" "And the winter of my days is here" "Bursting forth" "And the dreams of the past" "Of the past are present" "In the love" "That never grows old" "I've got peace" "And she's got peace" "Our lives" "Hard lives" "Crooked paths" "Amidst too many flowers and thorns" "I don't miss anymore" "Anything I've done" "In the winter of my days" "Oh God" "I feel happy" "All the days of my life" "Only you fascinate me" "Mangueira" "I've quarreled in my youth" "For you I've done what I could" "Mangueira" "Our struggle goes on" "We prune the tree And pick the fruit" "And sow the seeds again" "And when that work is done" "Another songwriter comes" "With the same blood in his veins" "I've dreamed since I was a kid" "I had a feline desire" "Of telling your story" "I've fulfilled that dream" "One day I picked up the lyre" "And I sang all your glories" "Forgive me the comparison" "But I've made a transfusion" "And for that Jesus rewards me" "Another songwriter comes" "So young and so full of worth" "With the same blood in his veins" "I'd like to leave my best regards to all of you... and thank you for choosing me to chit-chat with you... to tell some lies and a few truths." "Gorgeous" "I feel you're more beautiful" "I wait for you" "I feel so alone, but" "Time passes" "In a much deeper pain" "Gorgeous" "That's the way You present yourself" "And sadness takes her leave" "Now joy is here Run and look at the sky" "'Cause the sun will bring" "A nice day" "Run and look at the sky" "'Cause the sun will bring" "A nice day" "Gorgeous" "I feel you're more beautiful" "I wait for you" "I feel so alone, but" "Time passes" "In a much deeper pain" "Gorgeous" "That's the way You present yourself" "And sadness takes her leave" "Now joy is here Run and look at the sky" "'Cause the sun will bring" "A nice day" "Run and look at the sky" "'Cause the sun will bring" "A nice day" "My girl is gone" "Loneliness moved in with me" "I don't have Those beautiful dreams anymore" "No one's waiting for me" "Whenever I remember Those sad eyes" "I feel I could cry" "Whenever I remember Those sad eyes" "I feel I could cry" "There's no pleasure anymore In gazing at the moon" "Through the holes In the roof of my hut" "Which isn't an Enchanted palace anymore" "Because I'm hurt Wound in my heart" "Even this life I love so much" "I feel it's coming to an end" "My wooden hut in Mangueira" "Means nothing to me without her" "Rio de Janeiro" "Traditional city" "From the times of young mistresses Maids and noble ladies" "And the imperial court" "Its landscape is luxurious" "Prim, sublime and vibrant" "You are a model city" "The heart of Brazil" "Modern Rio" "Is known for its agility" "Its progress is so superb" "Its architecture is wonderful" "Let's praise Estácio de Sá" "Founder of this city" "Mayor Pereira Passos" "Pioneer and renovator" "Paulo de Frontin Able engineer" "A paradigm of selflessness" "Pedro Ernesto And other rulers" "Gave Rio a superb evolution" "Rio de Janeiro" "Traditional city" "From the times of young mistresses Maids and noble ladies" "And the imperial court" "Its landscape is luxurious" "Prim, sublime and vibrant" "You are a model city" "The heart of Brazil" "Modern Rio" "Is known for its agility" "Its progress is so superb" "Its architecture is wonderful"