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The Girl from Ipanema. " Garota de Ipanema " ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡaˈɾotɐ dʒipɐ̃ˈnemɐ] ), " The Girl from Ipanema ", is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics ...
The song was published in South Africa, in a wartime leaflet, with an anonymous English translation, as "Lili Marleen: The Theme Song of the Eighth Army and the 6th Armoured Division". [10] Lale Andersen was awarded a gold disc for over one million sales (HMV - EG 6993). [11] It is thought she was awarded her copy after hostilities ended.
Siúil a Rúin. " Siúil a Rúin " is a traditional Irish song, sung from the point of view of a woman lamenting a lover who has embarked on a military career, and indicating her willingness to support him. The song has English language verses and an Irish language chorus, a style known as macaronic .
The following slang words used in South African originated in other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and subsequently came to South Africa. bint – a girl, from Arabic بِنْت. Usually seen as derogatory. buck – the main unit of currency: in South Africa the rand, and from the American use of the word for the dollar.
It is mostly danced with Eurobeat music or covers of other songs but with the aforementioned Eurobeat remix. One of the most famous parapara songs and its tagline, 'GET WILD & BE SEXY,' is synonymous with gyaru culture and was a famous eurobeat song of the same name, by the group Eurocker-Girlz also abbreviated to E-Girlz. [101]
Mo ghile mear is a term applied to the Pretender in numerous Jacobite songs of the period. O'Daly (1866) reports that many of the Irish Jacobite songs were set to the tune The White Cockade. This is in origin a love song of the 17th century, the "White Cockade" ( cnotadh bán) being an ornament of ribbons worn by young women, but the term was ...
Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
La donna è mobile. For the 1942 Italian film, see The Lady Is Fickle. " La donna è mobile " ( pronounced [la ˈdɔnna ˌɛ mˈmɔːbile]; "Woman is fickle") is the Duke of Mantua's canzone from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Rigoletto (1851). The canzone is famous as a showcase for tenors.