Aruanda Ê

Category: Corridos

Lyrics, Translations, Music Video and Song Meaning

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1922

Song Lyrics

00:01 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

00:04 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

00:07 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

00:11 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

00:14 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

00:16 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

00:18 - Vem de dentro do peito

Eng: It comes from inside the chest

00:20 - Essa chama que acende

Eng: This flame that lights

00:21 - Meu corpo inteiro não pode parar

Eng: My entire body cannot stop

00:24 - Eu sou mandigueiro de lá da Bahia

Eng: I am mandigueiro from Bahia

00:26 - Axé capoeira salve Abadá

Eng: Capoeira Axé long live Abadá

00:29 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

00:32 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

00:35 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

00:39 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

00:42 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

00:44 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

00:46 - Oxalá que me guie

Eng: Oxalá who guides me

00:49 - Não deixe na roda a fé me faltar

Eng: Don’t let my faith fail in the roda

00:51 - Sou vento que sopra eu sou capoeira

Eng: I am the wind that blows I am Capoeira

00:54 - A luta de um povo prá se libertar

Eng: The fight of a people to be free

00:57 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

01:00 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

01:02 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

01:06 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

01:08 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

01:11 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

01:13 - Vem de dentro do peito

Eng: It comes from inside the chest

01:15 - Essa chama que acende

Eng: This flame that lights

01:16 - Meu corpo inteiro não pode parar

Eng: My entire body cannot stop

01:19 - Eu sou mandigueiro de lá da Bahia

Eng: I am mandigueiro from Bahia

01:21 - Axé capoeira salve Abadá

Eng: Capoeira Axé long live Abadá

01:24 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

01:27 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

01:29 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

01:33 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

01:36 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

01:38 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

01:41 - Oxalá que me guie por todo caminho

Eng: Oxalá who guides me all the way

01:43 - Não deixe na roda a fé me faltar

Eng: Don’t let my faith fail in the roda

01:46 - Sou vento que sopra eu sou capoeira

Eng: I am the wind that blows I am Capoeira

01:48 - A luta de um povo prá se libertar

Eng: The fight of a people to be free

01:51 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

01:54 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

01:56 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

01:59 - Aruanda ê

Eng: Aruanda ê

02:02 - Aruanda ê, aruanda

Eng: Aruanda ê, aruanda

02:05 - Aruanda ê camará

Eng: Aruanda ê my friend

History and sentiment behind song

Oxalá refers to the creator God in Candomblé - a spiritualist religion in Brazil.

The word Aruandê was derived from the word Luanda, the capital and largest city of Angola, Africa. Luanda, once known as Loanda, was founded by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais in 1575 who named it "São Paulo de Loanda". The city became the center of slave trade from Africa to Brazil from c.1550 to c.1850, growing to be the largest port for the Portuguese trafficking of slaves to Africa for over 300 years. It was in Luanda that the slaves were gathered, chained, stored in the basements of ships and sent off across the Atlantic to be sold.The transformation from the word Luanda to Aruanda occured slowly overtime. To the early generations of slaves, Luanda burned deep in their memory as the last vision they had of home, their last taste of freedom. For this reason, wherever the slave was transported in Brazil, he fondly recalled and spoke of his African city "Luanda." Slavery continued on for centuries, though, and as time passed, children who were born into slavery never saw Africa, nor a city called Luanda. They had never travelled on ships, never seen a port.