TheGirlFromIpanema

The Girl From Ipanama

The girl from Ipanema

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This is Jim Halsall's fourth CD and features jazz classics as well as his own jazzy arrangements of various pop songs.

The Ipanema beach is where it all started. Or is it ?

It is said that a beautiful young girl was observed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the composers, as they sat outside a bar in Ipanema Rio de Janeiro.She would walk by them on the way to the beach, the most beautiful of the Ipanema girls.
The girl in question is thought to be Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto a beautiful 15 year old who was "tall and tanned and young and lovely" quite an inspiration, and the song was born there and then.

As is life, the true story is more mundane.The song was composed for a musical comedy titled 'Dirigível'. Vinicius de Moraes wrote the words and Antonio Carlos Jobim composed the music.Later Girl from Ipanema lyrics where composed in English by Norman Gimbel.

                                                                     Girl from Ipanema Lyrics

                                                           Girl from Ipanema chords

                                                                             Ipanema beach

                                                                  Girls from Ipanema magazine

                                                                              Ipanema girls

THE LYRICS

Norman Gimbel

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!"
When she walks she's like a samba that
Swings so cool and sways so gentle,
That when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!"

Oh, but I watch her so sadly How can I tell her I love her?
Yes, I would give my heart gladly,
But each day when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead not at me

Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes I smile, but she doesn't see
She just doesn't see,She just doesn't see

                                        THE CHORDS

FM7
Tall and tan and young and lovely
      G7
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
         Gm7                                          Gb7                                    FM7     F#M7
And when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!"
FM7
When she walks she's like a samba that
G7
Swings so cool and sways so gentle,
           Gm7                                         Gb7                                     FM7
That when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!"

F#M7                                       B7
Oh, but I watch her so sadly
F#m7                                D7
How can I tell her I love her?
Gm                                                    Eb7
Yes, I would give my heart gladly
              Am7                                                 D7-9
But each day when she walks to the sea
          Gm7                                                 G7-9
She looks straight ahead not at me

FM7
Tall and tan and young and lovely
      G7
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
       Gm7                                 Gb7                                FM7    F#M7
And when she passes I smile, but she doesn't see
                                   FM7       F#M7    FM7
She just doesn't see            She just doesn't

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