Help me ID THIS song

Cafe Society
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This may or may not be a long shot. I’ve no idea who this song is by. But, I heard a Brazilian Jazz song the other night that I was taught by a woman years ago. It is sung in mostly Portugese by a soft female voice, backed up by guitar, with some english interspersed, mainly the word ‘baby’. Also the first word of many of the verses is vose (pronounced VO-ZAY) which I was told is Portugese for ‘baby’. I can not provide the melody, which is exceedingly lovely, but I do know the basic lyrical construction,half translated and following here:

‘Baby (vose), if you want to love me, first you must understand…’
‘the gasoline (la gasolina)’
‘the margarine (la margarina)’ (in another verse magezina)

blah, blah, blah more song…

refrain… baby… bAaa by… (in english)

I must find this out. Please give me a hand folks. Thanks

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It could be “Voce E Eu”, a Jobim song.
You can hear a snippet of it here:
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.asp?pfid=1468413

3

Yeah this is probably a hijack, but if you ask me, you should be asking about a song that goes…

Shes tall and tan and young a lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
and when shes walking the men she passes goes
AAaahhh…

What a great song. I just burned a disk with 9 different versions of this ditty…

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There’s a song called “Baby” by Caetano Veloso that looks like what you’re describing. Try a Google search for baby gasolina margarina and you’ll get a lot of sites with the lyrics.

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FTR, voce=you in Portuguese

as in “Voce E Eu” (You and I)