Music > Amdjer de Nós Terra
Composer: Teófilo Chantre and Vitorino Chantre
Performer: Cesária Évora
Language: CVC
Amdjer de Nós Terra
A Woman of Our Land
Ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra
This is what a woman of our land is like
Firme moda rotcha na meio de mar
Solid as a rock in the middle of the sea
Ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra
This is what a woman of our land is like
Que'fidje na costa ta tchorá sodade
Carrying her child on her back, crying with sodade
Ma sempre c'mon na sê enxada
Always at work with her hoe
Cidim c'sol cascode ô meia-note
From sunrise until midnight
Ta corrê campe ta luta ta sofrê
Working the fields, struggling and suffering
Pa criá fidje c'pai ô sem pai
To raise her children with or without a father
Ta guentá qu'ês gente e tude qu'ês bedje
Helping the weakest and the oldest
Qu'ta intchi casa pa gatchá de fome
Who fill her house for shelter with hunger
Ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra
This is what a woman of our land is like
Nôs or nôs pitrol nôs riqueza
Our gold our oil our wealth
Ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra
This is what a woman of our land is like
Nôs sodade nôs cretcheu
Our sodade our beloved
Luz de nôs vida
Light of our lives
(refrain, repeated after each two-stanza section)
Retratóde e pintóde na rotcha
Carved and painted in the rock
Tchoróde e cantóde pa mar
Cried for and sung for by the sea
Quémóde de sol sotóde pa vente
Burned by the sun, whipped by the wind
Ma sempre ta espiá pa lua
But always looking to the moon
Ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra
This is what a woman of our land is like
Nô levanta'l pa tude mundo oiá
We must hold her up for all the world to see
Nô pô'l na peite nô sinti'l nô ama'l
We must love her with all our heart
Nô canta'l na nôs morna
We must sing of her in our mornas
Na nôs batuque e coladera
In our batukus and coladeiras
Pa universo inter f'ca ta sabê
So that the whole universe will know
Qu'ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra
That this is what a woman of our land is like
Ess é qu'é amdjer de nôs terra...
This is what a woman of our land is like...
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