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Leblon
04:36
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Morning sun speaks through the sky
Wakes the city to a silver sea
And above, the maresia
Floating with the soul of living free
Down in Leblon
In the sun where we belong
Shadows by the sea
Natural sensuality
Samba breezes blow
And the impulse starts to flow
Blending with the air
That adventure in her stare
And the heat reveals her to the night
The naked moon in her eyes
Ocean sand melts on her thigh
Echoes reach the morning sky
Down in Leblon
In the sun where we belong
Shadows by the sea
Dripping sensuality
Samba breezes blow
And the impulse starts to flow
Blending with the air
That adventure in her stare
Music and Lyrics: Adam Dunning
© 2009 Sunset Club Music
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Here it is, another day like this
And our wishing that this golden sun, never goes
And to live, to see to the end
Of this wave that grew and came to rest at your toes
And to look, to the sky that is so beautiful
And to see, the stare in your eyes, taken by this clear blue sea.
Another wave that was born
Calmly falls smiling and free
Of our sea
Here it is, another day like this
Our horizon that will never end, passes by
The rising moon, comes to close the day
It’s a camellia that is floating naked in the sky
Lá se vai mais um dia assim,
Nossa praia que não tem mais fim, acabou
Vai subindo uma lua assim
É a camélia que flutua nua no céu
Music and Lyrics by Roberto Menescal & Ronaldo Bôscoli
English version by Adam Dunning
© Warner / Chappell
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Sunset Monkeys
04:38
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Sunset Monkeys
Sitting on the wire
High above the fire
On the streets below
Sunset Monkeys
Singing that forgotten song
Of one for another
Living each day
Burning skies all around
Monkeys sing to their own sound
Sunset Monkeys
Sitting on the wire
Living love in their own way
Living each day
Living each day
Do they ever hear the cry
Of a world that’s passing by
Would they ever see the sun
As it used to be
Sunset Monkeys
Brothers of a simple life
Together and free
And they’re just like you and me
We see ourselves in those eyes
Why don’t we see them when they cry?
Sunset Monkeys
Sitting on the wire
Living love in their own way
Living each day
Together and free
And they’re just like you and me
Living, loving, playing each day
Sunset Monkeys
Sitting on the wire
High above the fire
On the streets below
Sunset Monkeys
Singing that forgotten song
Of one for another
Living each day
Sunset Monkeys
Sitting on the wire
Living love in their own way
Living each day
How can they be
Just like you and me
Music and Lyrics by Adam Dunning
© 2009 Sunset Club Music
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Ah, Jungle Flower
Virgin dream of morning light
Veil of dew in the caresses of the night
Breezes warmly kiss the jungle flora
Ah, Jungle Flower
With your inhibitions bare
Butterflies in concert kissing in the air
Your ember glows and shows the flare of your pleasure
A curtain of these rare wings
It flickers through the air
Wreaths of fire
Skirts embroidered rising up above the knee
Stars of water sinking in the sheets of glory
Of your nights of revelry in the moonlight
Ah, flor do mato
Sonho virgem da manhã
Véu de orvalho em afagos de amor
Brisa morna beija roça mato em flor
Ah, flor do mato
Sem recato dorso nu
Borboletas em rodeio vêm beijar
O teu seio veio vivo de prazer
Cortina de asas raras
Centelhas pelo ar
São grinaldas
São bordados saia acima do joelho
São estrelas d’água no lençol do leito
De tuas noites de orgia com o luar
Music and Lyrics by Lysias Enio & João Donato. English version by Adam Dunning
© Nowa / Acre Musical (Som Livre Edições Musicais)
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Mount Eliza
05:09
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Sun’s coming out in Melbourne town
The morning air, the weekend sound
It’s good to know
There’s a little place down there
We can make our love outside
Who’s to care
Home is my whispering mind
The family is one of a kind
October’s gone
The heat’s in our hair
Drinking lime and bitters
On the beach chair
Take me down to Mount Eliza
Where the sun will be with you
Take me down to Mount Eliza
We’ll hit the beach ‘round about two
Take me down to Mount Eliza
And when the sun falls to the bay
Sorrento breeze ends the day
I play Jobim to you
Under the eves
You watch the lightening
Dance with the trees
Music and Lyrics by Adam Dunning
© 2008 Sunset Club Music
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Green
05:22
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River flows from where nobody knows
Forests call for the rains to fall
Daisies blow in the summer snow
We think oh what a beautiful show
Blackened seams cross the river streams in the city of dreams
Oh how I’d love to go
House is clean and the garden looks green
But can we see the green
The reef is shrinking, Hawaii’s sinking
Ghost nets that wander the sea we don’t see
Sumatran forest for palm oil margarine
The tiger, he was last seen leaving
Amazonia, they sold its persona, Galapagos asking for time
They say its all for you and me
A beautiful world is not just on our TV screen
We can see the green
Music and lyrics by Adam Dunning
© 2008 Sunset Club Music
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Dawn will break across the sky
Soon you will abandon me
Forgiveness was much more
Than you could ask of me
I wanted to be fooled
Now pain is all I feel
Ah, madrugada já rompeu
Você vai me abandonar
Eu sinto que o perdão
Você não mereceu
Eu quis a ilusão
Agora a dor sou eu
Pobre de quem não entendeu
Que a beleza de amar é se dar
E só querendo pedir
Nunca soube o que é perder pra encontrar
I know
Dawn will break across the sky
Soon you will abandon me
Forgiveness was much more
Than you could ask of me
I wanted to be fooled
Now pain is all feel
Eu sei
Que é preciso perdoar
Foi você quem me ensinou
Que um homem como eu
Que tem por que chorar
Só sabe o que é sofrer
Se o pranto se acabar
Music and lyrics by Carlos Coqueijo & Alcivando Luz
© Todamerica (ADDAF)
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Song of the Lagoon
04:35
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You and Me (Você e Eu)
03:36
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Let them call for me
And let them all reach out for me
And let them brawl and shout and swear
Or cut me out, that I don’t care
What if they invite
To all those parties by moonlight
And all those shows
I don’t want to know
How fair or square if I don’t go
And let them also call me vile
For they can cry, and they can smile
Or let them send me to exile
And think whatever it may be
Let them spread the word
That I’ve just had it with this world
And it’s a shame
For those who claim that I was free
I am all for you and me
Podem me chamar
E me pedir e me rogar
E podem mesmo falar mal
Ficar de mal que não faz mal
Podem preparar
Milhões de festas ao luar
Eu não vou ir
Melhor nem pedir
Eu não vou ir, não quero ir
E também podem me entregar
Até sorrir, até chorar
E podem mesmo imaginar
O que melhor lhes parecer
Podem espalhar
Que eu estou cansado de viver
E que é uma pena
Para quem me conheceu
Eu sou mais você e eu
Music and Lyrics by Carlos Lyra & Vinicius de Moraes
English version by Carlos Lyra
© MCK / Tonga (Universal Publishing MGB)
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Summer Things
07:02
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I feel
A citrus wind
Drifting in
This dawn
I breathe
Those summer things
Your tanned skin
Fresh lawn
Skies so clear
Whisper you in my ear
Waters blue
Smiling with all of you
Hearts and hands
Truth hiding in the sands
The summer’s made of you
I see
A sprinkler spray
The lazy shade
We two
I taste
Fruits of the sea
Sea salt on me
On you
I feel
Those summer things
Late changing winds
So warm
And then I yawn
And I hear
The crickets sing
A wind chime
The storm
And rains beginning
‘Til the summer shines again
I’ll be fine
Music and lyrics by Ronaldo Cotrim and Adam Dunning
© Day 1 Ent. (Brasil) / Sunset Club Music
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Photograph (Fotografia)
04:04
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You and I we two
Alone here on this terrace by the sea
The sun is going down and in your eyes
I see the changing colors of the sea
It’s time for you to go the day is done
And shadows stretch their arms to bring the night
The sun falls in the sea and down below
A window light we see
Just you and me
Eu, você, nós dois
Aqui neste terraço à beira-mar
O sol já vai caindo e o seu olhar
Parece acompanhar a cor do mar
Você tem que ir embora
A tarde cai
Em cores se desfaz
Escureceu
O sol caiu no mar
E a primeira luz lá embaixo se acendeu
Você e eu
You and I we two
Alone here in this bar with dimming lights
A full and rising moon comes from the sea
And soon the bar will close for you and me
But there will always be a song to tell
The story you and I cannot dismiss
That same old simple story of desire
And suddenly that kiss
That kiss, that kiss
Eu, você, nós dois
Sozinhos neste bar à meia-luz
E uma grande lua saiu do mar
Parece que este bar já vai fechar
E há sempre uma canção para contar
Aquela velha história de um desejo
Que todas as canções têm pra contar
E veio aquele beijo
Aquele beijo, aquele beijo
Music and lyrics by Antonio Carlos Jobim. English version by Ray Gilbert
© Jobim Music
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'S Wonderful
04:09
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‘S Wonderful, ‘S Marvelous
That she should care for me
‘S Awfully nice, ‘S Paradise
It’s what I long to be
She makes my life so glamourous
You can’t blame me for feeling amorous
‘S Wonderful, ‘S Marvelous
That she should care for me
C’est Magnifique, C’est Merveilleux
Elle Devrait prendre soin de moi
C’est Vraiment doux, Un Paradis
J’aimerais que ça ne s’arrête pas
Elle rend ma vie si fascinante
Ne me reprochez pas d’être amoureux
C’est Magnifique, C’est Merveilleux
Pourvu qu’elle prenne soin de moi
‘S Wonderful, Magnifique
‘S Marvelous, Merveilleux
That she should care for me
C’est Vraiment doux, ’S Awfully nice
Un Paradis, ‘S Paradise
J’aimerais que ça ne s’arrête pas
She makes my life so glamourous
Ne me reprochez pas d’être amoureux
‘S Wonderful, Magnifique
‘S Marvelous, Merveilleux
That she should care for me
Pourvu qu’elle prenne soin de moi
That she should care for me
Music and lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin. French version by Manuel Guignard and Adam Dunning
© Warner / Chappell (ASCAP).
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Parabens Ao Meu Amigo
04:04
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The time of year is here again
Raise your glass for tomorrow
A year of fun and getting on
Hold the joy, throw the sorrow
A city of sun to see the day
We walk the dog, you walk my shoulder
The sound of samba echoes near
We’re just children of the world, playing here
Flying through the year
With a smile, without fear
Parabens ao meu amigo
Parabens meu amigo
Parabens ao meu amigo
Parabens meu amigo
The waves around you can be heard
Friends of time and of season
So we want to say with birthday cheer
We’re your friends, we’ll always be here
Flying through the year
With a smile, without fear
That time has come today
Music and lyrics by Adam Dunning
© 2008 Sunset Club Music
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With You
04:12
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When I’m with you, oceans are calm
The sky is always clear
Problems that once seemed too much to bear
Suddenly disappear
When I’m with you knots I have tied
Suddenly come undone
Worries I once had now make me smile
Life is a lot more fun
Poverty and crime, religious strife
They’re just some silly mistakes
I know that we can correct them all
This is difference love makes
When I’m with you stars are aligned
I finally understand
Everything works out for the best
Just as it has been planned
Junto a você, o mar é tão calmo
O céu é sempre azul
Toda chatice fica pra trás
A vida segue em paz
Junto a você, os nós que atei
Já não apertam mais
Minhas angústias ficam pra trás
A vida se refaz
Aquecimento global, degelo polar
São ocorrências banais
Eu sei que o tempo já vai melhorar
Isso é o que amor faz
Junto a você, o sol vai brilhar
E eu posso entender
Tudo caminha pro seu melhor
Como havia de ser
Music and lyrics by Ronaldo Cotrim & Matthew VanFossan
© Day 1 Ent. (Brasil)
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Nunca Fui
04:23
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Nunca fui com você no Democráticos
Nunca fui com você na praia
Nunca fui com você
Nunca fui com você
Nunca fui com você até agora
Nunca fui com você
Nunca fui com você no Jardim Botânico
Nunca fui com você no Arpoador
Nunca dancei com você nos sambas da Lapa
Nunca cantei com você Garota de Ipanema
Nunca corri com você na Lagoa
Nunca desfilei com você no Salgueiro
Nunca fui com você ao Posto Nove
Nunca fui com você ao Maracanã
Nunca fui com você a Cidade Maravilhosa
Nunca fui com você ao Rio de Janeiro
Music and lyrics by Adam Dunning
© Sunset Club Music
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Adam Dunning Melbourne, Australia
The BBC have called him the "Voice of Summer".
Blessed with a stream of outstanding reviews the world over,
his originals are melodic and relaxed, known for their environmental undertones, and themes of freedom and nature.
Solar, Bossa Nova, Jazz, and the sun and moon !
A refreshing, addictive style from one of the most unique artists on the world stage today.
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