| Fado, fado
| fado, fado
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| Le Portugal te doit ses nuits blanches
| Portugal owes you its sleepless nights
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| Quand on fond de l’ombre tu te penches
| When we melt from the shadows you lean
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| Offrant ta fraîcheur sous le ciel chaud
| Offering your cool under the hot sky
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| Fado, fado
| fado, fado
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| Le soir sur la place on se rassemble
| In the evening in the square we gather
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| Et dès que ta voix se fait entendre
| And as soon as your voice is heard
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| Toutes les mères rythment le fado
| All the mothers punctuate the fado
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| Tous les cœurs
| all hearts
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| Te confient leurs espoirs et leurs peines
| Give you their hopes and their sorrows
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| Le bonheur se confond enfin avec les pleurs
| Happiness finally merges with tears
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| Grâce au
| Thanks to
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| Fado, fado
| fado, fado
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| Quand la femme au châle noir te chante
| When the woman in the black shawl sings to you
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| C’est tout un monde que l’on invente
| It's a whole world that we invent
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| Rien que pour un refrain de fado
| Just for a chorus of fado
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| Fado, fado
| fado, fado
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| Pour deux étrangers venus t’entendre
| For two strangers who came to hear you
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| Le bonheur ne s’est pas fait attendre
| Happiness was not long in coming
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| Car l’amour aime bien le fado
| 'Cause love loves fado
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| Fado, fado
| fado, fado
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| On s’est regardé sans rien se dire
| We looked at each other without saying anything
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| Aussitôt tu fleuris en sourires
| As soon as you bloom in smiles
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| Nos cœurs se sont compris sans un mot
| Our hearts understood each other without a word
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| Dans ma main
| In my hand
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| En tremblant il pose sa main douce
| Trembling he puts his soft hand
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| Et soudain pour nos deux cœurs
| And suddenly for our two hearts
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| Il ne dit plus rien
| He doesn't say anything anymore
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| Que le
| That the
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| Fado, fado
| fado, fado
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| Rythmons cet amour devenu notre
| Rhythm this love become our
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| Nous sommes partis l’un contre l’autre
| We went against each other
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| Tandis que s'éloigne le fado
| As the fado fades away
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| Fado, fado, fado | fado, fado, fado |