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Being Brazil

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Dancing the samba down Mexico way
a glorious vision in famous yellow
The game at it’s most beautiful there
a template for all those who follow

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Kicking about in the summer sun
schoolboys with vivid imagination
Play at being The Boys from Brazil
whose style demanded such adulation

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Pele spinning that black & white ball
Rivelino’s powerful swerving kicks
Jairzinho making the sign of the cross
and Gerson’s magical box of tricks

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Assuming the names of these great men
made the pretence become so real
Replicating those giant footsteps
as the glittering Jules Rimet was sealed

Notes

Remembering football matches on the school field during the 1970 World Cup. We WERE Brazil.

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/being-brazil/