The Girl from Ipanema

"The Girl from Ipanema" ("A Garota de Ipanema") is considered the best-known bossa nova song ever written, and was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes; English lyrics were later written by Norman Gimbel.

English lyrics

Tall and tan and young and lovely

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The girl from Ipanema goes walking

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And when she passes

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Each one she passes goes "aah"

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When she walks she's like a samba

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That swings so cool and sways so gently

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That when she passes

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Each one she passes goes "aah"

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Oh, but I watch her so sadly

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How can I tell her I love her?

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Yes, I would give my heart gladly

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But each day when she walks to the sea

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She looks straight ahead not at me

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Tall and tan and young and lovely

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The girl from Ipanema goes walking

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And when she passes I smile

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But she doesn't see

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