Tico Tico no Fubá (Sparrow In The Cornmeal) is a Brazilian choro song written by Zequinho de Abreu in 1917. Abreu’s work was given its present name in 1931 and sometime later Aloysio Oliveira wrote the Portuguese lyrics.
Outside Brazil the song reached its peak popularity in the 1940s with successful recordings in English by the Andrews Sisters, Carmen Miranda and others. Tico Tico https://youtu.be/foThl5loxYs Roland. Toronto.
