""THE MISTERY OF SAMBA"" "I have no ambition in this world" "But I'm rich" "By the Grace of God" "I have in my life a valuable love" "It's my charming treasure" "But I know" "I know that you complain in vain" "Because you don't understand" "That the world is good" "Forthose" "Who know how to live" "And accept" "What God gives them" "Life is about Being born and blooming" "So we can die later" "We used to party hard back in our days." "We partied and drank;" "we really drank a lot with our friends." "I used to listen to the radio, around 1943... and they played Noel's samba:" "Hail Estácio, Salgueiro and Mangueira" "Oswaldo Cruz and Matriz" "Another samba mentioned Paulo from Portela:" "The teachers of the slums are performing" "Paulo from Portela Nono and Mano Edgar" "There were lots of soccer fields around here." "Now you can't find even a tiny vacant lot." "There was a lot of macumba." "Today things are too calm... this place used to be busy." "When I moved here from the moving truck..." "I read "Oswaldo Cruz District"." "I was around 1O years old..." "I thought:" ""I wanna visit Portela"." "I was sure Portela Samba School was here." "Portela, when I meditate" "I end upcrying" "I cannot even remember" "In its books So many beautiful pages" "If I start talking about Portela lwon't finish today" "Cartola from Mangueira" "In its golden era" "Ismael's Estácio" "Saying the samba was his" "In Oswaldo Cruz" "Right next to Madureira" "People only talked about Paulo Benjamin de Oliveira" "Portela" "Paulo and Claudionor" "In the samba's court They were the best" "Everyone came to see them" "As I jog my memory" "In the book of our history" "Our achievements abound" " That 's beautiful!" " When I arrived at Portela... people used to tell their stories... but no one wrote them down." "Many songs were lost." "Hence you had the idea to record..." "Portela's old samba composers?" "Yes, I spoke to Mr. Ventura:" ""We should gather some composers... so as to reclaim old sambas"." " Previously unrecorded?" " Not ever." "As the idea of the album took off... we needed a place where they could sing." "I had a large tape recorder... and I wanted to record everything to select from there." "They sang their own sambas, as well as other composers'... and we ended up with some 2O sambas." "So you created the Old Guard format for the recording of their first album, correct?" " Yes." "Feelings" "In my heart I have plenty" "The joy I knew Never again" "Since the day" "I learned" "That the woman I loved Never loved me in return" "Today she thinks I'm in love" "But that's not true" "I've made up my mind" "I'll never love again" "When you're not loved back That will not do" "Paulinho, what about the name Old Guard... did it already exist?" "It sure did." "The elders called themselves the Old Guard." "It came natural to them:" ""I'm from the Old Guard"." "Or younger people would say, "He's part of the Old Guard"." "So the name came naturally." "Yes, it was natural, Portela's Old Guard." "I stillwant you" "Come back to our nest" "I can't get used to" "Living alone" "You know how I learned to play the small guitar?" "Some of Portela's elders... back in Oswaldo Cruz... they got together... at a bar... with acavaquinho... that 's what Alvaiade played... and they just played there." "They improvised." "My mom sent me out for bread... but I always forgot." "I stayed there watching them... with my eyes on the cavaquinho." "Then, I went home." "As I didn't have money to buy acavaquinho..." "I grabbed a small wooden board... and improvised with 4 very thin wires... in stand of strings." "Whenever I came by the bar..." "I'd focus on the player's hand... and I did the same thing on my board." "When I finally got acavaquinho..." "I could already play it well." "Then it was easy." "I became Portela's number one cavaquinho player." "I'm a Portela fan Since lwas a child" "And it's fresh in my mind" "What I'm about to disclose" "I rememberwhen Paulo" "Smiled and told" "The new samba players" "The secret of the way he sang" "He'd be so happy When he heard an anthem" "There comes Rufino with news for us" "The curtain opens There comes Mano Caetano" "Abelardo failed" "His hat fell on the tracks" "His best suit ripped off" "In my childhood in Nova Iguaçu..." "I liked to follow the bands." "And I already wrote some rough sambas." "My friends and I would drum on a soda can... and make silly samba parodies... kid's stuff." "I hung out with this black kid called Sabu... and a kid called Luís." "I wrote something like..." "The National Defense League" "Will hire Sabu" "To sing in Rio Grande do Sul" "And they'll also hire Monarco and Luís" "And everyone will ask for an encore!" "Silly stuff, but it was there." "I had already heard about Portela... and I'd say I was a fan already." "So when I moved to Oswaldo Cruz..." "I think it was fate, and so good for me." "When I saw it, I said:" ""Hey, the samba we sang in Nova Iguaçu"." "I learned with them and dreamed:" ""I'd love to write a samba for my Portela"." "Guess how old I am." "Can you guess?" " 78." " I wish I were 78." "I'm 81, and now I'm forgetful and silly." "My name is Otto Henrique Trept a.k.a. Casquinha." "How did you begin to compose?" "We had a group and we used to meet... at the Oswaldo Cruz station with our girlfriends... on Sunday afternoons." "This particular evening, most of us didn't show up... but Candeia did." "He said, "Hey, try and write a samba"." "I wasn't a composer!" "That night when I went home, I wrote my first song... but I was too shy to show him." "I sang the first part..." ""You stay here." "And I'll be alone over there"." "At this time, around 1O:" "3O AM... the train was empty." "So he wrote the second part." "He asked me to sing the first part." "I did." "He sang the second one." ""Let 's rehearse it at Portela on Sunday."" "It goes like this..." "I can't stand this indecision" "Not knowing Whetheryou still love me or not" "I'm waiting foryour resolution" "To relieve my poor heart" "I can't stand this indecision lwon't cry" "If you don't accept me" "No, lwon't" "I just can't take this bitter anguish any more" "My inspiration?" "Making samba, and playing the cuíca." "That 's what I do." "I was 19 years old when I started making samba." "I arrived at Portela in 1946... they put me through a test, and I passed." "They thought I was a goodcuíca player... so I played all over Brazil... all over the world, France and other countries." "Do not" "Allow temptation" "To come" "And change the way we live" "It fuels our illusion" "And" "Only you know why" "This sadness takes over me" "Only God knows" "What I feel foryou" "I try to find a solution" "But, my heart, I can't restrain" "And it suffers for loving you in vain" "This song has a sad story behind it, right?" "All beautiful sambas need a tad of sadness." "I'm a nobody" "As you know" "My love" "I only have the life" "I only have the soul" "That God's given me" "If you want me" "Exactly the way I am Iwill be" "With my body and soul" "Foreveryour love" "I know solitude well." "It 's locking up the house to go to sleep... without no one to talk to, no one to argue with... not even a radio to listen to." "You just sit... and meditate." "Loneliness..." "You have everything and nothing... no one to pick a fight with." "At such times, women come in handy." "Loneliness..." "At least to pick a fight with." "Loneliness" "Is a ghost that kills" "And breaks my heart" "It's sorrow, anguish and grief" "Boredom is an eternal distress" "This is loneliness" "I'm fascinated by the street-wise guy's samba... with bookies all around." "The late Dodô..." "Yeah, Dodô." "Hugo!" "Hugo, from Irajá." "Malandros who sang sambas, with their polished nails." "And I've always been biased in favor of them." "One day someone took me, I don't who... to Aunt Doca's samba court." ""Let 's go to Oswaldo Cruz"." "It 's right across from here." "When I got there..." "I saw Chico Santana..." "I met Osmar." "My first reference of good samba... was at Aunt Doca's." "After that, my friend, I never knew peace again." "Samba has to come from here." "Noel Rosa used to say... and I tip my hat to him:" ""Samba is a privilege you can't learn at college." "So if you're love-stricken..."" "He says samba doesn't come from the slums... nor from the cities." ""So if you're love-stricken... you will know that samba comes from your heart"." "Composers have a knack." "He wanders around in his imagination." "He sits down and..." "I went everywhere with a pencil in my pocket." "One day, I found a pack of cigarettes." "I ripped it off, took the white paper... and went home to write a samba." "By the time I got home it was finished." "I thought, "I'll get to the samba school... and add some 'lala, lala'... so when we sing the ladies will go nuts... with excitement!"" "In my tin roof shack" "After she moved in" "My life got out of control" "I sacrifice myself for a woman Who doesn't love me" "She wants to live in luxury" "When she feels bad She won't accept poverty" "I don't know what to do about it" "This woman who destroyed my home" "But I'll keepon singing" "That 's it." "I've been writing a song... but I haven't found the definition of the word I want." "I can't even pronounce it:" ""Ambit" or "ambity"." " It 's "ambit"." " What?" ""Ambit"?" "Then I wasn't that wrong." "I myself went with "ambit"." "Now what does it mean?" "I have a story here, but this word must be in it." "Copulate." "I only found out what "copulate" meant... exactly... some 1O years ago." "Copulate." "My goodness, is it what it means?" "I'm gonna call my wife and copulate." "He never knew what it meant!" "I'm gonna go home, fondle my wife... and we'll copulate." "Argemiro..." "Argemiro is the biggest old scum I ever met." "I met 2 lady friends on the beach." "We drove around... and I said, "Let 's go see Argemiro in Oswaldo Cruz"." "We got there, we bought steak and lettuce... to eat lunch with him." "He used to live alone." "So we arrived at... the one-bedroom house where he lived." "Argemiro eyed the ladies, and was happy I'd bought beer." "We drank, the women cooked steaks... made a salad." "They fed Argemiro." "When we finished, I said, "I gotta go, buddy"." ""Not until those bitches do the dishes."" ""But, Argemiro, they fed you."" ""I didn't ask them to." "Tell them to do the dishes!"" "The girls smiled and said, "He's so cute!"" "Argemiro... let 's remember Mano Alberto." "This longing brings me" "This longing brings me" "There is someone lwant to see again" "Who doesn't leave my heart" "The agony I live in is endless" "I sing" "I drink to forget" "But it's useless" "This damned longing is killing me" "And this agony" "From me won't part" "That's why I sing" "And drink so lwon't cry" "To relieve my heart" "Sing one more time for me" "Our generation, mine, Mauro's and Arlindo's... we still worship you guys." "You, Monarco, Argemiro, Mr. Alberto!" "Manacéa!" "Chico Santana." "Mr. Chico." "He died soon after we met." "Alberto was a good partner." "Yes, he was." "After we played and people left, he'd say:" ""I'll go with the little guy"." "Alberto..." "Play that song I was going to record." "You left me" "No, lwon't cry" "But lwant revenge lwon't hurt you" "Won't poison you" "Your punishment is my indifference Iwill kill you Iwill slowly kill you" "Your punishment is my indifference Iwill slowly kill you" "Indifference is a dangerous weapon" "Worse than a poisonous arrow" "Indifference for a sensitive heart" "Sometimes it makes you cry" "Sometimes it makes you smile" "You left me" "Oddly enough, in this song... a woman sings in the first person." "It 's interesting... a man has written a woman's discourse." "It 's true." "And men seldom redeem themselves." "Women didn't compose then." " Or were there any women composers?" " At that time, no." "There wasn't much room to express women's feelings... through music writing." "They could choose the sambas... be the muses, backing vocals..." "And the cooks." " They organized parties." " Prepared food." "Back then, there were no pamphlet at rehearsals." "As they turned out new sambas... women picked them." "Women were in charge." "If they didn't sing, nothing happened." "We sang a samba... if they didn't sing, that was the end of it... 'cause we'd be lacking the female vocals." "A bunch of men singing was dull." "So when the women sang... our samba bloomed." "When they liked it..." "It would be a hit at the samba court... because of them." "So many tears I've shed" "Realizing I can no longer" "Relive the past lwas filled with hope" "And joy" "I used to sing I used to smile" "But today I no longer show" "That joy from years ago" "Melancholy fills my eyes" "Such longing memory brings" "If we could turn back time lwouldn't miss my youth" "At first, Portela had no drum session." "In the very beginning... it was just a small carnival group." "What instruments did it have?" "There was... a trombone... played by Mundico..." "Benício played the clarinet..." "Bida played the flute... acoustic guitars by Mr. Eusébio... and Dengo." "That 's it." "There was no cavaquinho." "There was." "Valdemar playedcavaquinho." "Antenor played the violin." " And what did Paulo play?" " Paulo was just the maestro." "Paulo Benjamin de Oliveira." "Paulo from Portela." "During Carnival, Paulo knocked on every door... asking parents... to let their daughters participate in the parade." "A huge crowd would follow Paulo in his open car." "He taught them how to do the samba." "He was a great person." "He was a gentleman." "With his initiative and the way Paulo treated people..." "Portela stood out as a unique samba school... and started what we see today... this wonderful evolution of samba." "To my great disappointment, when I came to Portela..." "Paulo had got into an argument... and was in a smaller samba school." "He composed..." "My name has sunk into oblivion" "Nobody cares about my name" "So time has passed me by" "I'm growing old" "And I get looked at with disdain" "Oh, how I long" "For a past that slowly fades away" "Oh, how I long" "For a past that slowly fades away" "Cry, cavaquinho,cry" "Cry, acoustic guitar" "Paulo has been forgotten" "No one cares about him anymore" "Cry, Portela, my beloved Portela" "I founded you You are forever mine" "We must preserve our traditions... to know where they came from." "We have to investigate them." "I learned early on to admire people with a history..." ""When I think of the future I don't forget the past"." "And there's one more thing." "You hear people say, "We have no memory." "Brazil has no tradition... no history, at all"." "I beg to differ." "My eyes shed tears" "My heart burns in flames" "How painful it is" "The suffering of those who love" "My soul complains" "I feel the pain of these flames Tearing my heart apart" "For an insincere woman Who doesn't know" "Doesn't know how to love" "I plead to God" "For resignation" "To endure the flames" "That tear my heart apart" "My eyes shed tears" "Such a beautiful samba." "Almost 3O years after your album... we made "Tudo Azul"... researching old unrecorded songs, mostly unreleased." "I've got more." "May I ask?" "Of course." ""Nascer e o florescer", 1962." " Manacéa." " You remember?" "And another one:" ""Sem teu amor"." "Life is about Being born and blooming" "So lateron we can die" "I know that you complain in vain" "Because you don't understand" "That the world is good forthose" "Who know how to live" "And accept what God gives them" "Life is about Being born and blooming" "So lateron we can die" "Beautiful!" "By the Grace of God" "I have in my life a valuable love" "It's my charming treasure" "Dona Neném should have the cassette." "Áurea!" "Dona Neném!" "Hello, Dona Neném!" "May I come in?" "Sure!" "How do you do?" "Long time no see!" "I missed you." " How are you?" " Not so well." "Old people always have something." "But you look really good." "You seem to be doing great." "We come from a samba family." "That will never change." "When dad would forget something... back when tape recorders were still rare... he would call me, and sing a samba... so I would remember it." "Uncle Aniceto would come... they'd sit together over there... and call the children... cause our heads were fresh, they said." "And they sang to us, so we'd learn the sambas." "We sang as if playing ring-around-a-rosie." "It was a memory reservoir." "Just in case, so we could refresh his memory." "He kept no written records?" "Dad kept a notebook." " Is it here?" " No, it isn't." "Is it lost?" "Mom lent it to someone right after he died." "Someone came over." " Who?" " I don't remember." "Monarco told me:" ""Neither lend Manacéa's stuff... nor sing his sambas to anyone"." ""I would not!"" "I'm not sure if it was a reporter... who borrowed his notebook." "He never returned it." "We have some of his drafts... but they're not organized as in his notebook." " He jotted things down?" " Yeah, he did." "D. Neném, which is your favorite song by Manacéa?" "One that was never recorded." "Wait until Áurea comes back, she'll remember it." "How does that song I like go?" "I know..." "No, that other one." "I'm a nobody..." " I really like that one." " The Old Guard has recorded it." "Yes." "It 's beautiful." "I only have the soul that God's given me" "Wasn't it made for you?" "No, he said he made the other one for me." "And I say he didn't, it was for Olga." "Then Olga's song was was really for you?" "He said it was for me, but it wasn't... it was for Olga..." "Whose case is this?" "Manacéa's." "He kept all his stuff in there." "Look!" "His strings." "See if there's anything else." "Manacéa's sambas." "His sambas are in there?" "That 's what it says." "We'll have to find out." "There's a piece of paper in here." "Lyrics." ""Madrugada"." ""Ela chorou"." ""Você foi um grão de areia"." ""Eu perdi você"." ""Louca"." ""Eu não quero mais seus beijos"." ""Não me preocures mais"." "Disillusion hurts my soul feels" "A poignant pain" "This is a treasure!" "Mijinha and Manacéa." ""Minha rainha"." ""I dreamed I was king and you were my queen"..." "Dad said this was his first samba." "It wasn't." "Life in this world Only gives us pleasure" "It makes me sad to see you suffer" "You are the joy of my home" "Come back and sing" "We found out!" "What a discovery!" "Honey, why are you so blue?" "There's something about you" "Sadness, my love Only gives us pain" "Come back and sing" "To forget the sorrow" "You carry in yourweeping eyes" "Life in this world Only gives us pleasure" "It makes me sad to see you suffer" "You are the joy of my home" "Come back and sing" "The second part wasn't like that." "There's no Olga here." "The second part I know is..." "Olga, you should understand" "You're my only interest In this world" "I think this one is prettier." ""Life in this world only gives us pleasure."" "Right." ""It makes me really sad to see you suffer."" "So that 's it, then." "It 's his handwriting." "Honey" "Why are you so blue?" "There's something about you" "Sadness, my love" "Only gives us pain" "Come back and sing" "To forget the sorrow" "You carry in yourweeping eyes" "You carry in yourweeping eyes" "Life in this world Only gives us pleasure" "It makes me sad to see you suffer" "You are the joy of my home" "Come back and sing, honey" "They were three brothers composers the perfect line-up." "Mijinha..." "Aniceto, the eldest who was also really good... and Manacéa." "Once they were singing samba at a bar..." "I know..." "Someone asked whose samba it was... and Mijinha replied:" ""It 's my youngest brother's"." "Manacéa had a spontaneous melody... his melody had a magic touch... and it was really unique." "Manacéa's melody is hard to explain." "Samba by Mijinha and Manacéa." "Mom used to say" "Joy, my son" "Joy" "Push sadness away" "Go out and party" "What's wrongwith you?" "I never knew..." "Mijinha and Manacéa were partners." "I asked if they wrote music together... and Áurea said they didn't." ""They write separately." "They both write lyrics and music."" "And in samba... few people write lyrics only, but not the melodies." "One partner writes the first part... and the other the second part." "So one comes up with the idea of a song... and the second one develops the idea further." "Deliverthis message" "To that someone who hurt me so" "Tell her I'm betteroff now" "My suffering ceased long ago" "Now I ache no more" "Let bygones be bygones" "Now I ache no more" "Let bygones be bygones" "Go and tell the one I once loved" "That my heart is joyous" "Yet tell herthat Even in my long nights" "She never leaves my thoughts" "Deliverthis message" "Deliverthis message" "To that someone who hurt me so" "Tell her I'm betteroff now" "My suffering ceased long ago" "Now I ache no more" "Let bygones be bygones" "Now I ache no more" "Let bygones be bygones" "You played the first part and Casquinha just finished it?" "He wrote the second part." "On the spot." "I sang it twice." "And he came up with it." "Casquinha is..." "He's a natural." "Today I work as a painter, painting walls." "Founder, but I'm retired now." "Pressman." "I'm retired." "I've been retired for 3 years." "I collect two full retirement incomes... because I'm also retired from the radio." "I'm not rich!" "I can't die of hunger!" "I work as a polisher." "I used to be a contractor... but I quit because it was too tiring." "And I'm too old to mix mortar... or lay foundations." "I've always worked and always played samba." "Time flies, my man." "This street here, Marechal Bittencourt... over 5O years ago, in 1947..." "I used to stand on that corner and sell steel wool... by the train station." "There was a street market here on Thursdays." "I used to stand over there, a young boy." "Time flies!" "My first job was at the Brazilian Press Association." "I was an office boy." "I brushed pool tables for Villa-Lobos." "I worked there until 195O." "I spent my childhood there." " Did you like samba?" " Yes, I did!" "I grabbed the broom, waved it as a flag... and danced samba with Tupi... a black kid who was a bootblack." "Once the president caught us dancing." "He yelled at me and reprimanded me." "They fired me for messing around;" "there wasn't a fight or anything." "And Mr. Herbert Moses got me a job later at the Industry Social Service." "After that, I worked as a fishmonger at the street market." "My last job was at Jornal do Brasil... as a valet." "I was dragged by the ear to work." "My dad woke me up at 5 AM." "I bathed and left... carrying my lunch bag." "I only had Sundays off." "We worked full day on Saturdays." "Every single day... mixing mortar." "My dad used to beat me up." "I hope he is resting in peace." "If it weren't for him, I'd be in jail now." "So I learned to work with refrigeration." "I got better off." "I retired as a mechanic... for refrigerators and air-conditioners." "After I recorded "A chuva cai..."" "at the age of 65..." "I told myself, "No more working!" "God gave me this gift at this age, so I'd stop working"." "The first time I received copyrights... for "Barracão de Zinco"..." "I had nothing to eat at home." "When I got home, with the money... my mom was suspicious." ""Son, where did you get this?"" "She thought I had done something wrong... stolen some money on the street." "It was the samba, and I said, "Let 's make samba"." "I'm leaving" "I don't know if I'll evercome back" "Don't hate me, please" "Today is Carnival" "I'm leaving" "I'm going far away" "No need to worry Iwill be back" "When Carnival is over" "Mr. Argemiro, who asked you to sing at that bar?" "Vinícius de Moraes." "And who else?" "And Paulinho da Viola... and Chico Buarque." " Who took you there?" " Paulinho da Viola." "And what happened?" "Paulinho said, "He is Argemiro do Pandeiro." "He just began to compose, It 's good stuff"." "So they asked me:" ""Are you really a composer?" "I've only just begun"." ""So make a samba about this bottle."" ""I don't feel anything for this bottle."" "I told him, "I like to do things that inspire me"." "But why did he ask you that?" "They were so drunk." "So I went home and did it." "I said to Paulinho, "I wrote the song"." "So he took me back there, and they were wasted!" "So I sang... and Chico Buarque said, "It 's better than I expected!"" "When people hear my sambas" "Maybe they will ask" "They will inquire about my past" "My lyrics are those of a lovesick man" "No other genre appeals to me Iwill say, you're mistaken" "I can't write without inspiration" "If you understand you'll agree" "I only write as I feel" "I'm all fortruth not for deception" "You can blame my inspiration" "I've already essayed" "To write in a different way" "Nothing came out perfect" "Because it wasn't in me" "It's no use forcing my nature" "Samba is best when it's pure" "If I force myself I'll die" "When I quit the bank, I became a painter." "So I wrote most of my sambas painting walls, on a ladder." "An idea would come up and I'd write the samba." "That 's how I got my inspiration." "When the samba comes to stay... you don't forget it." "We forget most of them... but when you have a strong inspiration... straight from your heart, its sticks." "What was your greatest source of inspiration?" "Men's weakness for women." "Women." "Women!" "She laid out my outfit." "She didn't know I was going to the samba." "She starched and ironed my clothes." "As I got to the gate, she said:" ""You're leaving already?" "You're going to pick up women in the street"." "I replied, "It 's my business"." "And we began to fight." "I ignored her and left." "And here's what I wrote." "When I came back home... she refused to open the door, but eventually she gave in." "I said to her..." "I'm back, I'm back" "Here's the one who shakes your life" "I've told you that for lack of love" "You will never die" "And I'm back" "She got really happy." "And then I went on." "I'm back to quench your desire" "Your love for me I can't forget" "I love you so much, woman" "Our love is not dead yet" "How long have you being married?" "5O years." "Fifty-some years." "Always with her." "We've never had differences." "Whenever I write a song with a woman's name... she wants to argue..." "My inspiration." "Have you been married?" "I've been married, I've cohabitated, I'm a widower, divorced... separated, whatever..." "My life is an endless series of separations." "The most important woman in my life..." "I don't remember..." "It was the mother of my children." "But she suffered so much." "God bless her!" "She's been long gone." "She suffered a lot 'cause..." "Casquinha was a naughty boy." "But I was forced into it." "I won't tell you all the fights I've had over women... 'cause here where I live... there are 3 of them who are married." "That 's history now." "Whenever I pass them by, they say:" " "You're shameless!"" " Zip it or you'll get in trouble." "In life" "All is not sweetness" "There's a place for bitterness" "So you can really appreciate it" "I've been young" "Today I'm an old man" "I've known grief and pain" "Friends, I've had plenty" "And they were always around" "When things were fine" "Yet they all disappeared" "During my difficult years" "Now I have none" "And new friends Would have to be true" "Yet they all disappeared" "During my difficult years" "Now I have none" "And new friends Would have to be true" "I wrote this first part." "Then Chico Santana went home and the next day... he came back with this..." "The treacherous destiny" "Wanted to take revenge on me lwas so happy" "When I built my home" "I've made mistakes in life" "Forone reason or another" "And besides losing my friends" "I also lost my wife" "I said, "How did you guess?"" "Man, you were dead on!" "That was it." "Those are our real life stories." ""How did you guess my woman left me?"" "That 's life." "When you're broke, women bail." "When women leave us, we write a samba." "Then we'll find a prettier one... and write a masterpiece." " Come on, buddy." " Here comes a beautiful samba!" "On one of life's roads" "I met you, my flower" "You were so disillusioned" "Defeated by a fake love" "I gave you love" "I gave you love and affection" "And as my reward" "You looked for a new nest" "My heart was broken" "But now it's full of passion" "But now it's full of passion" "Such disillusion" "You gave me, my flower lwas so terribly wrong" "Thinking of doing you good" "I fell in love with you" "Now, you in the kitchen!" "That was my disgrace" "Now" "A huge love consumes me" "Happiness up and left, it's gone" "I can't live without your love" "Now I nurture my pain alone" "All alone" "Now I nurture my pain alone" "All alone" "In the old days, Portela was a tough place." "For an outsider to come into Portela..." "Was it restricted?" "No, there were constant fights, women were aggressive... it was hell!" " And I was afraid..." " Were they jealous?" "Yeah!" "Whenever a new woman arrived..." ""Watch your husbands!" "New women arriving... to steal our husbands"." "And they fought with razorblades." "No way!" "But later, we all became friends." "This happened only at Portela?" "'Cause the best-looking men were at Portela." "Portela and lmpério." "Who were Portela's most handsome men?" "Most are dead but I'd say Candeia, by far!" "He was gorgeous!" "Mr. Waldir wasn't bad." "Waldir 59." "Siloca." "Siloca was quite nice." "I was little, but I'd say Casquinha..." "Right." "Casquinha was ugly!" "He looked like a rooster!" "Don't say that!" "Casquinha has aged well." "I dated Casquinha when I was young." "I was 17 or 18... and we went to São Paulo by train." "When Natal saw us, it was the end of it." "Casquinha, was "Falsas juras" really made for her?" "I made it because she cheated on me... with Nelson Pouco Fumo, May God keep his soul." "Nelson Pouco Fumo..." "Leave, I don't want you anymore" "I'm tired of your kisses" "Leave me alone" "You didn't keep your promise" "And like Judas you betrayed me" "Everythingwas a lie" "I've told you" "That I don't want your love anymore" "The fake promises in your kisses" "Made me suffer" "Don't come kneeling at my feet" "You can cry go ahead and cry" "I was old and a mother when I got married." "When I was young, I wanted to have fun and enjoy life." " I used to work." " Did you enjoy life?" "I won a tango contest." "It was the swing era, remember?" "She's younger than me." "Swing..." "I learned it all." "Why did your first marriage end?" "Well, because... he was a womanizer." "I grew up with the pain of being raised without a father so I said, "It won't work." "You go your way, I'll go my way"." "So I left him." "But then I choose another one 1O times worse, Jair's brother." "I had a hard time with him." "I'd go out the door, yell at him... throw rocks at him..." "It was hell!" "Who threw rocks at him?" "I did!" "I couldn't hit him... so I had to throw rocks at him." "He was really difficult." "I think it runs in the family." "My father-in-law was the same and so were Jair and Altair." "Falling madly in love like women I know?" "I never had time for that." "I liked the person." "Loving like crazy, no." "It 's nonsense." "No way, honey!" "To me, love was doing the laundry... cooking... bathing the children, that was love." "But many samba songs speak of love." "For those who dig it." "The rule for replacements." "We normally replace... with people who've had a glorious past in the samba school, with a background in music." "They replace those who die." "The first one to die was..." "João da Gente." "It 's like an Academy of Letters... where they choose by consensus... who would be accepted." "They discuss among themselves... the eligible and possible candidates." "And they kinda prepare some people... to join them some day." "Paulo from Portela was my teacher." "When he danced the samba old style... people were in awe." "Now you are going to learn how to dance the old style." "You don't have to do much... just keep your feet on the floor." "This is how I danced." "When I did the samba, here's how I did it." "Slowly..." "I would greet the audience... kiss the palm of my hands... and blow it." "And people applauded." "Then I began to dance... swinging my hips." "As you dance slowly... you lift your skirt up... showing your fine lacy petticoat... your ornamented underskirt." "Every day is a new day" "I get older by the day By the month" "The world passes by me Every day" "While I pass by the world only once" "Nature is perfect" "And that no one can deny" "At nighttime, the day is asleep" "Daytime is the awakening of the night" "Every day is a new day" "Wait." "There's more." "So many late nights On the sidewalks" "Alcides and I." "Here, wipe it." "It 's my partner Alcides', a born malandro." ""Aos pés do altar" is the first one." "Let me see it." "Music by Monarco and Mauro." "Right, "Aos pés do altar"!" "I found a tape with unrecorded sambas by Casquinha..." "I wanted to play to you." "I'm leaving lwon't tellwhere I'm going" "I'm running away from my love" "I'm leaving" "I'm leaving lwon't tellwhere I'm going" "I'm running away from my love" "Come, let bygones be bygones" "Come with me, my love" "I've been seeking for so long" "And I can't" "I've been seeking for so long" "And I can't find" "Someone to love me And make me happy" "Forgive me, my love I know lwas wrong" "Forgive me, my love Forgive me if I hurt you" "Saying farewell to you Makes me cry" "I'm no one without you" "Don't say goodbye to me now" "I'm begging you, please, love Don't say goodbye" "Remember now?" "Don't cry, don't cry" "Do your best, love, it's time" "You passed by like a bird" "Singing minutes ago" "But falling into your nest" "I'll give you affection if you need" "And may God grant you happiness" "But it goes away when the sky glows" "The sunshine comes down Brightening upthe universe" "In music, I like a lot of different things... but few things touch me as the Old Guard does." "We were both moved by a similar curiosity... and the belief that life would be better with those sambas." "I had hope that one day" "She would return to my side" "God filled with resignation" "This poor heart of mine" "I can no longer stand your absence" "Please, God, grant me patience" "When the day" "When the day breaks" "I get up and break out singing" "This sweet melody" "That reminds me" "Of those lovely moonlit nights" "I had someone Always waiting for me" "Ever since the day she left me" "I keepthis song in my memory" "I remember once..." "It was here at Portela... the Old Guard got together one evening." "I remember Bubu playing the tambourine... he used to lift it up... it was so beautiful!" "I kept my distance... and I was moved... because I was seeing and hearing something... you don't see that often anymore." "It was so beautiful and touching." "You could see that everyone was deeply involved... living that touching moment." "Enjoying it and singing and dancing." "That 's apparent when people get together... in music or whatever other art form... the arts in general." "And that 's really meaningful." "You can try to explain that... but that 's not what matters the most." "Yet tell herthat even In my long nights" "She never leaves my thoughts" "Deliverthis message" "To that someone who hurt me so" "Tell her I'm betteroff now" "My suffering ceased long ago" "Now I ache no more" "Let bygones be bygones" "Speak, Casquinha." "Go and tell the one I once loved" "That my heart is joyous" "I'll be yours I'll be yours" "You'll be mine" "The happy life far from here We'll enjoy" "There is only two things That could stop" "And you smilingwill ask Darlingwho will?" "Look, I know very well I'll answeryou" "Longing, jealous, darling The love" "I'm listening a voice A voice that calls me" "Run and come to see" "This woman who cries" "Who wants come back to me" "Let the Carnival go" "Woman Woman, my consolation" "Joy of my home" "Beautiful Beautiful flower" "I nevertold you that lwon't let you" "I am going" "What a mission to take" "Although you don't cry" "I'll make you cry" "Here, Casquinha!" "The drunk Casquinha" "The song thrush sang It made me remember" "Someone who went sailing" "She didn't say If she's coming back" "I'm always sad" "I'll cry I'll cry" "I feel sadness to know I'm all alone" "I've lost all hope To see my baby again" "Oh song thrush If you sing, I'll cry" "Because my dear honey Went sailing in the sea" "Jair from Cavaquinho, come in this samba's court... and do that wonderful dance from Portela." "Then you take the Aunt Eunice." "She will take Doca." "Doca take Surica, Surica take Áurea..." "Áurea take the Argemiro do Pandeiro." "Argemiro take Davi do Pandeiro..." "Davi take Cabelinho, that Cabelinho now is dancing too." "And Cabelinho take Paulinho da Viola, he's our patronizer." "Come on, brother Casquinha." "Song thrush, Song thrush"