Slightly Out of Tune ( Desafinado )
Love is like a never ending melody,
Poets have compared it to a
symphony,
A symphony conducted by the lighting of the
moon,
But our song of love is slightly out of tune .
. . .
Once your kisses raised me to a fever
pitch,
Now the orchestration doesn’t seem so
rich,
Seems to me you’ve changed the tune we used to
sing,
Like the bossa nova love should swing . . .
.
We used to harmonize two souls in perfect
time,
Now the song is different and the words don’t
even rhyme,
‘Cause you forgot the melody our hearts would
always croon,
What good’s a heart that’s slightly out of
tune?
Tune your heart with mine the way it used to
be,
Join with me in harmony and sing a song of
love,
We’re bound to get in tune again before too
long,
There’ll be no Desafinado when your heart
belongs to me completely
Then you won’t be slightly out of tune, you’ll
sing along with me!
Music by
Antonio Carlos Jobim
with original lyrics by
Newton Mendonça , 1962
English lyrics by
Jon Hendricks and
Jessie Cavanaugh
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Produced by Hugo and Luigi
With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and
( The Ray Charles Singers )
Recorded in Webster Hall, New
York City
Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson
Recorded March
25th, 1963
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