Sobre a cabeça os aviões
Sob os meus pés os caminhões
Aponta contra os chapadões
Meu nariz

Eu organizo o movimento
Eu oriento o carnaval
Eu inauguro o monumento no planalto central
Do país

Viva a bossa-sa-sa
Viva a palhoça-ça-ça-ça-ça
Viva a bossa-sa-sa
Viva a palhoça-ça-ça-ça-ça

O monumento é de papel crepom e prata
Os olhos verdes da mulata
A cabeleira esconde atrás da verde mata
O luar do sertão

O monumento não tem porta
A entrada de uma rua antiga, estreita e torta
E no joelho uma criança sorridente, feia e morta
Estende a mão

Viva a mata-ta-ta
Viva a mulata-ta-ta-ta-ta
Viva a mata-ta-ta
Viva a mulata-ta-ta-ta-ta

No pátio interno há uma piscina
Com água azul de Amaralina
Coqueiro, brisa e fala nordestina e faróis
Na mão direita tem uma roseira

Autenticando eterna primavera
E nos jardins os urubus passeiam a tarde inteira
Entre os girassóis

Viva Maria-ia-ia
Viva a Bahia-ia-ia-ia-ia
Viva Maria-ia-ia
Viva a Bahia-ia-ia-ia-ia

No pulso esquerdo bang-bang
Em suas veias corre muito pouco sangue
Mas seu coração balança a um samba de tamborim

Emite acordes dissonantes
Pelos cinco mil alto-falantes
Senhora e senhores ele põe os olhos grandes
Sobre mim

Viva Iracema-ma-ma
Viva Ipanema-ma-ma-ma-ma
Iracema-ma-ma
Viva Ipanema-ma-ma-ma-ma

Eu vejo na TV e aposto também que você vê
Explicações, milhões de deduções absurdas
Uma historia que se torna cada vez ma-ma-ma-mais imunda
Como não, deves pedir perdão
Não tem explicação não há uma solução
Errar é humano, errar humano é
Predestino é real
Burrice eu não desejo a ninguém
Tem gente do teu lado que te faz ir mais além
Gente do teu lado que te faz ir mais além
Se for voar bem alto se lembra de não ser refém
Mas com o pé no chão lembre de enxergar além

Domingo é o Fino da Bossa
Segunda-feira está na fossa
Terça-feira vai à roça, porém

O monumento é bem moderno
Não disse nada do modelo do meu terno
Que tudo mais vá pro inferno, meu bem
Que tudo mais vá pro inferno, meu bem

Viva a banda-da-da
Carmem Miranda-da-da-da-da
Viva a banda-da-da
Carmem Miranda-da-da-da-da

Viva a banda-da-da
Carmem Miranda-da-da-da-da
Viva a banda-da-da
Carmem Miranda-da-da-da-da


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