O Teu Cabelo Não Nega Lyrics Translation in English

O teu cabelo não nega, mulata

Your hair does not deny it, mulatto

Porque és mulata na cor

Because you are mulatto in color

Mas como a cor não pega mulata

But as the color doesn't stick, mulatto

Mulata, eu quero o teu amor

Mulatto, I want your love

Tens um sabor bem do Brasil

You have a taste of Brazil

Tens a alma cor de anil

You have a soul the color of anil (blue)

Mulata, mulatinha, meu amor

Mulatto, little mulatto, my love

Fui nomeado teu tenente interventor

I was appointed your lieutenant intervener

Quem te inventou, meu pancadão

Who invented you, my big hit

Teve uma consagração

Had a consecration

A Lua te invejando faz careta

The Moon, envying you, makes faces

Porque mulata, tu não és deste planeta

Because, mulatto, you are not from this planet

Quando, meu bem, vieste à terra

When, my dear, you came to earth

Portugal declarou guerra

Portugal declared war

A concorrência então foi colossal

The competition then was colossal

Vasco da Gama contra o batalhão naval

Vasco da Gama against the naval battalion