Velho Cantor Lyrics Translation in English

Marco Aurélio Vasconcellos
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Portuguese Lyrics

English Translation

Como figura surgida

As a figure emerging

Do ventre fundo dos anos

From the deep womb of the years

Sua Estampa de fronteira

His Borderland Image

Sacudida de minuanos

Shaken by minuanos


Se derramava em guitarras

It poured out in guitars

Pelos fogões campechanos

Through the rustic stoves

Contava até que de noite

He would tell, even at night

Quando solito estradeava

When he solitarily wandered


Se o vento no alambrado

If the wind on the fence

Lhe desafiando assobiava

Challenging him, whistled

Ele então de contraponto

He, in counterpoint

Até com o vento cantava

Even with the wind, would sing


Dizia o velho cantor

The old singer used to say

No seu campeiro cantar

In his rustic singing

Quem passa a vida cantando

One who spends life singing

Não sente a vida passar

Doesn't feel life passing by


Era o pago que encarnara

It was the homeland he incarnated

Com sua baguala essência

With his baguala essence

Neste campeiro quixote

In this rustic quixote

Que cruzava existência

Crossing existence


Palanqueando as tradições

Promoting the traditions

De sua velha querência

Of his old beloved land

Onde andará o guitarreiro

Where will the guitar player be

Já ninguém pode saber

No one can know


Quem sabe se foi como vento

Who knows if he became like the wind

Novos cantos aprender

To learn new songs

Quem sabe se fez guitarra

Who knows if he became a guitar

Para cantando volver

To return, singing


Nas mãos de novos cantores

In the hands of new singers

Num eterno renascer

In an eternal rebirth

Added by André Costa
Maputo, Mozambique November 8, 2024
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