Mestre Toni Vargas

Below you will find a song wich is used in capoeira. I hope you will enjoy the lyric. Together with the berimbau, the pandeiro and other instruments like agogo, atabaque, clapping hands, the songs will come alive. Capoeira songs are easy written end easy to learn. I hope you found a nice capoeira lyric that suits your mood!

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Mestre Toni Vargas

Portuguese:	English:
Dona Isabel que história é essa? De ter feito abolição De ser princesa boazinha Que acabou com escravidão Estou cansado de conversa Estou cansado de ilusão Abolição se fez com sangue Que inundava esse país Que o negro transforma em luta Cansado de ser infeliz A abolição se fez bem antes Ainda por se fazer agora Com a verdade das favelas Nao com as mentiras da escola Ôh! isabel chegou a hora De se acabar com essa maldade E de ensinar pro nossos filhos O quanto custa a liberdade Viva Zumbi, nosso guerreiro Que fez-se heroi la em Palmares Viva a cultura desse povo A liberdade verdadeira Que ja corria nos quilombos Que ja jogava capoeira	Mrs. Isabel, what story is this? Of having brought about abolition Of being a nice princess Who did away with slavery I am tired of talk I am tired of illusion Abolition was won with blood That inundated this country That the black man transformed into battle Tired of being unhappy Abolition was won much earlier And must still be won today With the truth of the slums Not with the lies told in schools Oh! Isabel, the time has arrived To do away with this evil And teach our children The cost of liberty Long live Zumbi, our warrior Who became a hero in Palmares Long live the culture of this people The true liberty That already flowed freely in the quilombos That already played capoeira

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English:

Dona Isabel que história é essa?
De ter feito abolição
De ser princesa boazinha
Que acabou com escravidão

Estou cansado de conversa
Estou cansado de ilusão
Abolição se fez com sangue
Que inundava esse país

Que o negro transforma em luta
Cansado de ser infeliz
A abolição se fez bem antes
Ainda por se fazer agora

Com a verdade das favelas
Nao com as mentiras da escola
Ôh! isabel chegou a hora
De se acabar com essa maldade

E de ensinar pro nossos filhos
O quanto custa a liberdade
Viva Zumbi, nosso guerreiro
Que fez-se heroi la em Palmares

Viva a cultura desse povo
A liberdade verdadeira
Que ja corria nos quilombos
Que ja jogava capoeira

Mrs. Isabel, what story is this?

Of having brought about abolition

Of being a nice princess

Who did away with slavery

I am tired of talk

I am tired of illusion

Abolition was won with blood

That inundated this country

That the black man transformed into battle

Tired of being unhappy

Abolition was won much earlier

And must still be won today

With the truth of the slums

Not with the lies told in schools

Oh! Isabel, the time has arrived

To do away with this evil

And teach our children

The cost of liberty

Long live Zumbi, our warrior

Who became a hero in Palmares

Long live the culture of this people

The true liberty

That already flowed freely in the quilombos

That already played capoeira