"Suíte do Pescador" ("The Suite of a Fisherman" in

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, also known as "Canção da Partida") is a song by Brazilian songwriter

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, written in 1957. In 1965 a closely similar version of the song, titled "Marcha dos Pescadores" ("March of the Fishermen"), was released. The song appears in the opening and in the end of ''

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'' film (which also stars Caymmi, among others). "Suíte do Pescador" was performed particularly by

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in 1965 and

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in 1999. The Brazilian band Zarabatana performed a jazz version of the song. In 1972,

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performed this song under the title of "Pescadores" as part of the album ''Acker Bilk, His Clarinet & Strings''. "Suíte do Pescador", performed by music group Akkord in the 1970s with Russian lyrics by Yuri Tseytlin, became popular in the

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and then in Russia (as performed by music band

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in 1998).

Themes

The original Portuguese lyrics revolves around a fisherman, who goes out to sea on a raft and hopes to return home safe. The Russian lyrics tells the story of an orphaned

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boy and is topically related to the plot of ''The Sandpit Generals''.

References

External links

English translation of Russian lyrics
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