Beira mar ioio beira mar iaia
Beira mar ioio beira mar iaia
Beira mar ioio beira mar iaia
Beira mar ioio beira mar iaia
Beira mar beira mar
É de ioio
Beira mar beira mar
É de iaia
Beira mar ioio
É de ioio
Beira mar iaia
É de iaia
Seaside ioio seaside iaia
Seaside ioio seaside iaia
Seaside ioio seaside iaia
Seaside ioio seaside iaia
Seaside seaside
It's ioio's
Seaside seaside
It's iaia's
Seaside ioio
It’s ioio’s
Seaside iaia
It’s iaia’s
The term beira-mar means sea-shore and the terms Ioio and Iaia are how slaves would usually refer to their masters and their masters’ children. This song gives reference to the sea-shores that often held such beauty in the northern states of Brazil and the fact that they would often belong to the slave-masters and mistresses.