The Girl from Ipenema
Photo courtesy of Pictor Photo Archives
Looking like the girl from Ipanema, tall, tan, young and lovely 18-year-old model Karlene Pakula poses on some rock steps in Laguna Beach. She is wearing a short print dress and is barefoot.
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes “a-a-ah!”
The Girl from Ipanema, or “Garota de Ipanema”, is a bossa nove song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1962. It was a big hit in the 1960’s and won Grammy Award in 1965. There are lyrics in Portugese by Vinicius de Moraes and English lyrics were later added by Norman Gimbel
Here is a video clip of Antonio on the Andy Williams Show in 1965. This is classic music from the sixties.
Here is a great version of The Girl From Ipanema by Eliane Elias.
Antonio Carlos Jobim: THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA
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Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking, And when she passes
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each one she passes goes “a-a-ah!”
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When she walks she’s like a samba that, Swings so cool and sways so gentle, That when she passes
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each one she passes goes “a-a-ah!”
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Oh, but I watch her so sadly, How can I tell her I love her? Yes, I would give my heart gladly
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But each day when she walks to the sea, She looks straight ahead not at me
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Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking, And when she passes
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I smile, but she doesn’t see, She just doesn’t see, No she doesn’t see