Samba Italiano

"Samba Italiano"^[1] (Italian Samba) is a popular samba song composed in 1965 by Adoniran Barbosa (1912–1982), who was a son of Italian immigrants from Valinhos, Brazil, and knew well the pidgin Italian-Portuguese dialect spoken in the streets of São Paulo, mostly in the Mooca, Brás and Bexiga sections.

The lyrics are very funny and non-sensical, at least for those Italian-Brazilians who can understand the language (a great number of paulistas).

• Trem das Onze
• Tiro ao Álvaro
• Samba do Arnesto
• Joga a chave

• MP3 Recording of Samba Italiano. Terra Music.