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Music > Sorte

Composer: Teófilo Chantre and Nika Sicile
Performer: Cesária Évora
Language: CVC

Sorte

Luck

Trinta e cinco óne despôs

Thirty-five years later

El tchega na mim

She came to me

El rodeá na bêra d'muto

She circled around many

caboverdeano

Cape Verdeans

Moda borboleta

Like a butterfly

El sentá na mim

And she landed on me

Li el otchá mel el otchá fel

In me she found the honey and the venom

Qu'm tava ta guardá'l

That I was keeping for her

El otcha-me pronto pá el

I was ready for her


Sorte di nha vida

Luck of my life

'M tava ta esperó-be

I was waiting for you

Já bô tchega, dali bô ca tá bai

Now that you have come, you won't go from here

Deus qu'mandó-be

God who sent you

Sabê o qu'el faze

Knows what he has done

Mim'm recebê-be di broce aberte

I welcomed you with open arms

P'm reparti-bo co nha povo

To share you with my people

Graças á bô mundo inter

Thanks to you the entire world

Já consagra-me

Has honored me


Fama di nha terra

Fame for my land

'M tá faze graças à bô

I make thanks to you

Mensagem di nôs poeta

Messages of our poets

'M tá leva' p'ess mundo fora

I carry to the outside world


'M canta sodade pa quel qui bai

I have sung of sodade for those who left

'M canta regresse pa quel qui bem

I have sung of return for those who have come back

Sorte pa mim, sorte pa nha terra

Good luck to me, good luck to my country

Sorte pa tudo quem ta uvi-me

Good luck to all those who are listening to me


Sorte pa mim

Good luck to me

Sorte pa nha terra

Good luck to my country

Sorte pa tudo quem ta uvi-me

Good luck to all those who are listening to me