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Music > Fada

Composer: B. Léza
Performer: Cesária Évora
Language: CVC

Fada

Fairy

Um estréla corrê na ceu

A shooting star in the sky

Nha pensamento indicam'

Something told me in my mind

Cma bô bem falá ma mim

That you came to speak to me

Ó morininha cretcheu

Oh my beloved little brown [mixed-race] girl

Um' dromi um' sonhá um dia

I slept, and I dreamed of a day

Cma um' bem conchê ess morininha

When I met this little brown girl

Na sonhe el parcem' um fada

In the dream, she appeared to be a fairy

Tal e qual bô bem conche

And, in reality, that is what you are

(refrain, repeated after each stanza)

Flôr mimosa sem igual

Sweet flower without equal

Morena di odjo di veludo

Velvet-eyed brown girl

Na mei di espinho bô é um flôr

You are a flower amongst thorns

Qui tal dam' cabo di nha vida

Who has given my life a purpose