O gringo

• 1. Brazil
• 2. gringo = foreigner, but most particularly the white, a north westerner from the USA or Europa
• 3. The author should generally use the word "Portuguese" rather than "Brazilian" since it's the country's official language. However, there can be two explanations. In the first, the singer jokes about a common mistake made by tourists who come to visit Brazil. Secondly, The singer distinguishes between the use of a Creolized Portuguese in Brazil and which uses different expressions or words typical of Brazil of those of the original Portuguese.
• 4. The chorus' lyrics are in Portuguese in the song.
• 5. Copacabana is a district of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It is located south of the city. The district includes the beach of the same name, 4.5 km long
• 6. This woman is probably a prostitute
• 7. Leblon and Ipanema are two chic and trendy neighborhoods in the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 8. The cruzeiro is the name of several currencies of Brazil, from 1942 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1994. Then, it was divided into 100 centavos.
• 9. maconha is the name given to the cannabis - What's called "the descent" in the esoteric language of cannabis users is this particular moment of "spleen," of this feeling of heaviness in the muscles, a little painful, sometimes even leading to drowsiness and which occurs past the euphoria. But, again, this is due to the effects of THC on the body. Here the author (B. Lavilliers, so) has fun creating a kind of literary "rebound" or, at least, a parallel to the previous verse, which speaks of the paths to go down to the sea.