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Homage to Jobim

from Songs for Ancient Days by Jay Cravath

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I can't believe you're really gone
Now I'll never hear that sweet Brazilian song
Drifting down the streets of Rio
Somewhere in that upward sky
If you're listening please heed this plaintive call
And answer with a song

Jobim- send me a song from up above
So that I may sing it for all your friends down here
Jobim- make it a samba lullaby
I thank you for the songs you gave us all these years

Jobim- where is that lilting melody
that your guitar was always the first to find
Jobim- listen again to the wave and sky
and bring it back to all in sweet Brazilian song

Once I saw a sad-eyed lady sing your song
It was a meditation on her solitude
Then I knew that someone somewhere had heard an angel's song
Beating on a batukada rhythm, wings a flappin' with a samba motion
At some heavenly carnival

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from Songs for Ancient Days, released April 1, 2017

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