ONE NOTE SAMBA

Words by Newton Mendonca ; Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim

This is just a little samba built upon a single note

Other notes are bound to follow but the root is still that note

Now the new one is the consequence of the one we've just been through

As I'm bound to be the unavoidable consequence of you

There's so many people who can talk and talk and talk

And just say nothing or nearly nothing

I have used up all the scale I know

And at the end I've come to nothing or nearly nothing

So I come back to my first note as I must come back to you

I will pour into that one note

All the love I feel for you

Anyone who wants the whole show

Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do

He will find himself with no show

Better play the note you know