Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Esse é o barco
É barco da memória
Vou contar minha história
Pra vocês me conhecer
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Attravesei céus, terras e mares
No Quilombo dos Palmares
Onde eu engatinhei
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco
Quem vai naquele barco, sou eu
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
This is the boat
It’s the boat of memory
I will tell my story
So you can know me
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
I crossed skies, lands and seas
In the Quilombo of Palmares
Where I crawled
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat
Who goes on that boat, it’s me
Did you know?
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.
Quilombo dos Palmares
- Quilombo dos Palmares was the largest and most famous community of escaped slaves and marginalized groups in colonial Brazilian history.
- Established in the rugged mountains of Alagoas in the early 1600s, it grew into a massive self-governing federation of smaller fortified villages.
- At its peak, the community housed over twenty thousand residents who sustained themselves through agriculture, trade, metallurgy, and dynamic governance.
- It successfully resisted decades of military expeditions from both Portuguese and Dutch colonial forces using sophisticated jungle guerrilla warfare.
- The early martial movements developed within these hidden settlements to defend the community directly laid the groundwork for capoeira.
- The kingdom finally collapsed in 1694 after a massive, year-long artillery siege, but it remains the ultimate historical symbol of Afro-Brazilian freedom.