Aidê é uma negra africana
tinha magía no seu cantar
tinha os olhos esverdeados
e sabia como cozinhar,
Sinhozinho ficou encantado
e com Aidê ele quis se casar
Nego disse, Aidê, não te case
Vá pro quilombo pra se libertar
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
No quilombo de Camugerê
a liberdade Aidê encontrou
juntou-se aos negros irmãos
descobriu um grande amor
Hoje Aidê canta sorrindo
ela fala com muito louvor
Liberdade não tem preço
o negro sabe quem o libertou
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Sinhozinho disse então
com quilombo eu vou acabar
Se Aidê não se casa comigo
com ninguém ela vai se casar
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Chegando em Camugerê
Sinhozinho se surpreendeu
O negro mostrou uma arma
que na senzala se desenvolveu
O negro venceu a batalha
e no quilombo Sinhozinho morreu
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê
Foge pra Camugerê
Aidê is a black African woman
she had magic in her singing
she had greenish eyes
and she knew how to cook
Sinhozinho was delighted
and with Aidê he wanted to get married
Negative said Aidê, I won’t marry you
went to the quilombo to be freed
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
In the quilombo of Camugerê
Aidê found freedom
She joined the black brothers
and discovered a great love
Today Aidê sings smiling
she speaks with great praise
Freedom has no price
the black man knows who freed him
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Sinhozinho then said
I will end this quilombo
If Aidê doesn’t marry me
she will marry no one
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Arriving in Camugerê
Sinhozinho was surprised
The black man showed a weapon
that has developed in the slave quarters
The black man won the battle
and in the quilombo Sinhozinho died
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Aidê
Escape to Camugerê
Did you know?
Camungerê
- Camungerê—also spelled Camugerê—is a highly popular, rhythmic corrido song sung to ignite a warm, high-energy atmosphere inside the roda.
- Historical research indicates that Camungerê was originally the name of a massive 16th-century quilombo settled deep in the Brazilian wilderness by escaped slaves.
- In modern capoeira culture, the chant serves as a classic musical greeting, commonly led when visiting capoeiristas or teachers step into another group's roda.
- The famous call-and-response lyrics use the archaic Portuguese pronoun "vosmecê" to playfully ask players how they are doing and if they are in good health.
- The song reminds the circle that despite its intense martial focus, capoeira is meant to be an expression of collective joy, deep community, and mutual respect.
- Structurally, the leading singer improvises lighthearted verses about friendship and health, while the rest of the roda instantly roars back the name in unison.
Quilombo
- A quilombo was a self-governing, fortified community established deep in the Brazilian wilderness by escaped slaves, indigenous peoples, and marginalized groups seeking absolute freedom.
- These hidden settlements functioned as powerful, independent mini-states that sustained themselves through agriculture, trade, metallurgy, and highly sophisticated defensive warfare.
- Within these communities, the mixing of diverse African martial traditions and survival strategies directly laid the physical and cultural groundwork for capoeira.
- They served as essential sanctuaries for the preservation of forbidden African spiritual practices, music, languages, and ancestral rhythms away from colonial control.
- The most massive federation, Quilombo dos Palmares, resisted decades of military assaults from European superpowers before its capital finally fell in 1694.
- Today, the concept is celebrated in countless traditional songs as the ultimate symbol of black sovereignty, collective resistance, and the ancestral birthplace of the art.
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