"Samba do Arnesto" (English: Arnesto's samba) is a classical samba song composed in 1953 by Italian Brazilian composer and singer Adoniran Barbosa. In his style of the "paulista" samba, it has humorous lyrics written in poor Portuguese language of the São Paulo city's poor suburbs with Italian immigrants. As is typical of many of his compositions, the last four lines are spoken instead of sung.

Lyrics

Original O Arnesto nos convidô prum samba, ele mora no Brás Nóis fumos e não encontremos ninguém Nóis vortemos cuma baita duma réiva Da outra veiz nóis num vai mais Nóis não semos tatu! Outro dia encontremo com o Arnesto Que pidiu descurpa mais nóis não aceitemos Isso não se faz, Arnesto, nóis não se importa Mais você devia ter ponhado um recado na porta Ansim: "ói, turma, num deu pra esperá A vez que isso num tem importância, num faz má Depois que nóis vai, depois que nóis vorta Assinado em cruz porque não sei escrever. Arnesto" Free translation Ernest has invited us for a samba, he lives in Brás We went there and didn't find no one We came back in a big rage Next time, we won't go again We are no racoon The other day we found Ernest Who asked for pardon but we didn't accept You can't do this to us, Ernest, we don't care much, But you should have put a message on the door Like this: "See, gang, I couldn't wait for you But since this is not important, no ill taken After we go, after we come Signed with a cross, because I can't write. Ernest The Portuguese lyrics above include grammatical and pronunciation features of the local speech (in italic) that violate official language norm. Those details are unfortunately lost in the English translation.