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I've got a heavy date - a tête-à-tête at eight, so speak, oh tico, tell me is it getting late? If I'm on time, 'Cuckoo!' but if I'm late, 'Woo-woo!' The one my heart has gone to may not want to wait!įor just a birdie, and a birdie who goes no-where, He knows of ev'ry Lovers' Lane and how to go there For in affairs of the heart, my Tico's terribly smart, He tells me: 'Gently, sentiment'ly at the start!' And when he says: 'Cuckoo!' he means it's time to woo It's 'tico-time' for all the lovers in the block. Oh tico-tico tick! Oh tico-tico tock! This tico-tico - he's the cuckoo in my clock. Let a cat loose to scare it off, and (even) set up a trap, but it has found out that cornmeal is a good feed. I have done everything to see if he's gone, Threw him canary feed to see if it ate it. I know that it comes to live in my yard, and that it puts on airs like a sparrow and a canary.īut please take this animal off my granary, because it will end up eating all the cornmeal Throw that tico out of here, from the top of the cornmeal (heap), it has so much fruit to eat from. The tico tico is here, it is here again, the tico tico is eating my cornmeal. If that tico tico has to feed itself, it better eat a few earthworms at the orchard. Loose translation of the original lyrics: Botei um gato um espantalho e um alçapão, mas ele acha que o fubá é que é boa alimentação. Tem tanta fruta que ele pode pinicar.Įu já fiz tudo para ver se conseguia. Tira esse tico de lá, de cima do meu fubá. Mas por favor tira esse bicho do celeiro, porque ele acaba comendo o fubá inteiro. Eu sei que ele vem viver no meu quintal, e vem com ares de canário e de pardal. O tico tico tá, tá outra vez aqui, o tico tico tá comendo o meu fubá. Se o tico tico tem, tem que se alimentar, Que vá comer umas minhocas no pomar. The complete version of Aloysio de Oliveira's original Portuguese lyrics:

The expression also features in the lyrics to the song O Pato made famous by João Gilberto. It was also featured in the MGM film Bathing Beauty (1943).

The song was also featured in the 'Aquarela do Brasil' segment of the Walt Disney film Saludos Amigos (1942) and in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987).

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Another well known recording was made by first lady of the organ, Miss Ethel Smith on the Hammond organ.Ī biographical movie by the same title was produced in 1952 by the Brazilian film studio Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz with Anselmo Duarte playing the main role. Tico-Tico no Fubá was recorded and made popular internationally by Carmen Miranda (who performed it onscreen in Copacabana (1947)) and Ray Conniff. Hence, 'tico-tico no fubá' means 'tico-tico on the cornmeal'. 'Fubá' is a type of maize flour, and 'tico-tico' is the name of a bird, the rufous-collared sparrow ( Zonotrichia capensis). Tico-Tico no Fubá is the title of a renowned Brazilian choro music piece composed by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917.Ĭhoro (literally translated meaning lament) is also popularly known as chorinho in the affectionate diminutive form of Brazilian Portuguese.