A Day in the Life of a Fool (Manhã de Carnaval) (Sigman)

'Manhã de Carnaval' (Morning of Carnival) is the most popular song by Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfá and lyricist Antônio Maria. It appears in multiple scenes in the 1959 film 'Orfeu Negro' (Black Orpheus) by French director Marcel Camus, including versions sung or hummed by both the principal characters (Orfeu and Euridice), as well as an instrumental version, so that the song has been described as the "main" musical theme of the film (aka 'Theme from Black Orpheus' or simply 'Black Orpheus').

English lyrics were added by Carl SIGMAN as 'A Day in the Life of a Fool':

A day in the life of a fool, a sad and a long lonely day
I walk the avenue, and hope I'll run into
The welcome sight of you, coming my way

I stop just across from your door, but you're never home any more
So back to my room, and there in the gloom,
I cry, tears of goodbye

Till you come back to me, 
that's the way it will be, every day in the life of fool


Recordings exist by Jack Jones (1966), Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Jim Nabors, Nana Mouskouri, Ithamara Koorax, Kenny Rankin, Ömür Göksel, Perpetuum Jazzile, BJ Thomas, Cassandra Wilson, Chris Bennett, Pizzicato One ft Gwyneth Herbert, Nicole Henry, etc.