Kings Girl from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim cover 4k

King's Duo Mel & Yasha jamming a beautiful instrumental on Saturday night.

"The Girl from Ipanema", is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. Ipanema is a fashionable neighborhood located in the southern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro. This song was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes, with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel. It was recorded by Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz.

The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now known as Helô Pinheiro), a seventeen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in Ipanema.[16] Every day, she would stroll past the Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"). She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf whistles.[17] In the winter of 1962, the composers saw the girl pass by the bar. She has become famous since the song was released.

Lyrics
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes, "Ah"

When she walks, she's like a samba
That swings so cool and sways so gently
That when she passes
Each one she passes goes, "Ah"

Oh, but he watches her so sadly
How can he tell her he loves her?
Yes, he would give his heart gladly
But each day, when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead, not at he

Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, he smiles
But she doesn't see

Oh, but he sees her so sadly
How can he tell her he loves her?
Yes, he would give his heart gladly
But each day, when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead, not at him

Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, he smiles
But she doesn't see

She just doesn't see
No, she doesn't see
But she doesn't see
She doesn't see
No, she doesn't see