Translation of the song lyrics E Viemos Nascidos do Mar - Ana Moura

E Viemos Nascidos do Mar (original)

E muito se espantam da nossa brancura entretanto
E muito pasmavam de olhar olhos claros assim
Palpavam as mãos e os braços e outras partes, portanto
Esfregavam de cuspo minha pele para ver se era enfim
Uma tinta ou se era de estampa uma carne tão branca
Vendo assim que era branco o meu corpo e a brancura de então
Extasiam e muito se pasmam de tudo em admiração;
E eram os brancos da sombra nascidos do mar pelas naus
Guiados pelos ventos do céu e pelo voo das aves;
Eles escondem as suas vergonhas cobertas de estopas
E eram grandes e gordos e baços e enxutos, os pretos
Pelas ventosidades confundem traseiros e bocas
E tapam estes e estas cobram calafetos
E os mais pardos lá vão quase nús, vão ao léu, gabirus
E de tetas até à cintura há mulheres crepitantes
Tão desnudas meneiam na dança o seu corpo dançante;
E eram os brancos da sombra nascidos do mar pelas naus
Guiados pelos ventos do céu e pelo voo das aves;
E muito se espantam da nossa brancura entretanto

E Viemos Nascidos do Mar (translation)

And they are very surprised at our whiteness, however
And very amazed to look at light eyes like that
They palpated their hands and arms and other parts, so
They rubbed my skin with spit to see if it was finally
A paint or if it was a print so white flesh
Seeing that my body was white and the whiteness of then
They are ecstatic and amazed at everything in admiration;
And they were the shadow whites born from the sea by the ships
Guided by the winds of the sky and the flight of birds;
They hide their shame covered in tow
And they were big and fat and spleen and dry, the blacks
By the winds they confuse hindquarters and mouths
And cover these and these charge caulks
And the brown ones go there almost naked, they go aimlessly, gabirus
And from tits to the waist there are crackling women
So naked they wiggle their dancing body in the dance;
And they were the shadow whites born from the sea by the ships
Guided by the winds of the sky and the flight of birds;
And they are very surprised at our whiteness, however