With samba I was born
in samba I was bred
and (the) blessed samba and I
were never parted

OR
and from the blessed samba
never was I parted


Below are my dictionary's thesaurus suggestions for "damned" which appears to me to most literal translation of 'danado'. I chose 'blessed' because it seems appropriate. "danado" often carries an element of affection, as hence my choice of 'blessed' which carries the same element of reluctant affection for the thing in question.

damned
adjective
1 damned souls cursed, doomed, lost, condemned to hell; anathematized; literary accursed.
2 informal : this damned car won't start blasted, damn, damnable, confounded, rotten, wretched; informal blessed, bloody; dated accursed.

I spent sometime, trying to make it all rhyme in English but I haven't yet been able to do it :-)

If I think of something better, I'll add a note.
HTH

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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-12-18 21:27:34 GMT)
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I love Mike (de Oliveira) Brady's suggestion for the whole translation in his agree with Luiz.
He really makes it rhyme!
But I'd still use 'blessed' rather than 'irresistible'...