Capoeira Lyrics and Music - The Holy Grail

I can't believe it was sitting there right in front of me all this time. For those of you not familiar with Capoeira, music plays a HUGE role in the art. The problem (for me at least) is that all of the music is in Portuguese.

With a monolingual person like myself, that's no small hurdle. Learning songs in a different language is tough. In a lot of cases I find myself just mimicking the sounds, without knowing the words. If I know the words, I typically don't know their meaning. If I know the words, and their meaning, it doesn't necessarily mean I know what they sound like when sung.

So, when I found the links a the bottom of the Capoeira Music page at Wikipedia, it was like a breath of fresh air. Here are the direct links below,

• Capoeira Music Instructional Videos: How to Play the Berimbau with Mestre Virgulino


• Capoeira Lyrics Project. A downloadable Microsoft Word file. 159 pages of lyrics.


• Capoeira Lyrics. A downloadable PDF file from Capoeira London UK


• Songs of Capoeira lyrics with AUDIO AND VIDEO!!!


• Capoeira Song Compendium Version 1 like the others, but with a huge appendix that includes Portuguese pronunciation, songs with similar melodies, a glossary, some history, etc., etc. [added 2007.05.16]

I started with Capoeira4All.com, which has some songs with lyrics and audio, but those Wikipedia links are great.