One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota Só)

Ella Fitzgerald

Compositor: Newton Mendonça, Tom Jobim

This is just a little samba
Built upon a single note
Other notes are bound to follow
But the root is still that note

Now this new one is the consequence
Of the one we've just been through
As I'm bound to be
The unavoidable consequence of you

There's so many people
Who can talk and talk, and talk
And just say nothing
Or nearly nothing

I have used up all the scale
I know and at the end
I've come to nothing
Or nearly nothing

So I come back to my first note
As I come back to you
I will pour into that one note
All the love I feel for you

Anyone who wants the whole show
Re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do
He will find himself with no show
Better play the note you know

I come back to my first note
I must come back to you
I will pour into that one note
All the love I feel for you

Anyone who wants the whole show
Re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do
He will find himself with no show
Better play the note you know