| Oh, muse of my fado
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| Oh my kind mother
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| I leave you dismayed
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| In the first April
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| But don't be so ungrateful
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| Don't forget who loved you
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| And in your dense forest
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| If lost and found
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| Alas, this land will still fulfill its ideal
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| It will still become an immense Portugal
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| «You know, deep down I am a sentimental
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| We all inherited a good dose of lyricism in the Portuguese blood (in addition to syphilis,
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| it is clear)
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| Even when my hands are busy torturing, strangling, slaughtering
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| My heart closes its eyes and sincerely cries..."
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| With ferns in the caatinga
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| Rosemary in the cane field
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| liqueurs in moringa
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| A tropical wine
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| And the beautiful mulatto
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| With lace from Alentejo
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| Whose in a bravado
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| Snatch a kiss
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| Alas, this land will still fulfill its ideal
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| It will still become an immense Portugal
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| «My heart has a serene way
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| And my hands the hard blow and fast
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| In such a way that, after done
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| Disagreed, I confess myself
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| If I bring my hands away from my chest
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| It is that there is a distance between intention and gesture
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| And if my heart is in my narrow hands
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| The sudden impression of incest haunts me
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| When I find myself in the heat of the fight
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| I show the handle-handed action to the bow
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| But my chest unbuttons
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| And if the sentence is announced raw
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| More than quickly the blind hand executes
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| For if not, the heart forgives»
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| Guitars and accordions
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| Jasmines, coconut trees, fountains
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| sardines, cassava
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| On a soft tile
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| And the Amazon River
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| That runs Trás-os-Montes
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| And in a pororoca
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| Flows into the Tagus
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| Alas, this land will still fulfill its ideal
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| It will still become a Colonial Empire
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| Alas, this land will still fulfill its ideal
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| It will still become a Colonial Empire |