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In your garden
(Music & lyrics: Dany Mariano / Arr.: Bau) |
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In your garden
There are roses
There’s jasmine
There are flowers of every color
Fruit of your love
In your garden
There are orchids
There’s rosemary
There’s a perfume healthier
Then a Pierre Cardin
When you open your arms
I see only one rainbow
Full of infinite colors
More brilliant then all diamond
When you talk to me
I feel in a warm ocean
No words in this world
Are enough to say to you, oh mum
Oh mum Fatu
Oh Fatu mum
Oh mum Fatu
You are the sun of my life
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In this time of my old age
(Music & lyrics: Tcheka / Arr.: Hernani Almeida) |
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In this time of my old age
I’d have liked to find a woman without vanity
I’d have liked to find a shameless woman
To help me with my innocent children
I speak with her, she tells me
But young man
Money in hand, the billy-goat attached
I speak with her, she tells me
But young man
Our conversation really isn’t from the sitting room
Oh girl, oh girl
Who can do anything with you?
Oh girl, oh girl
Oh girl, oh Teresa
Who can do anything with you?
Who can do anything with you?
There’s only the Hiace’s driver
My friends, tomorrow I’m leaving
Ie, ie, tchabeta
My friends, I wanna go tomorrow
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Tradition
(Music & lyrics: Tibau Tavares / Arr.: Bau) |
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Let us never leave our country
For so long a time
Let us visit it often
We’re going far away
To seek a better life
But living, that’s in our country
This land of fishermen and peasants
Corn in the mortar, morna on the lips
Sandals on the foot, the donkey carrying its firewood
Three stones to support the pot
Although our country is poor
We console ourselves
Another’s joy doesn't deceive me
We have none and we understood it
Our kindness hides our poverty
A, ia, ia, ie
A, ia, ia
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Absence
(Music & lyrics: Djack Monteiro / Arr.: Bau) |
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In your absence, I felt nostalgia
Partner, companion of my solitude
In your absence, an unequalled feeling
Stronger than the wind, deeper than the sea
If the universe truly has no limit
My love is also unlimited
For what I feel in myself
My heart motivated by emotion
In this song, he declares
All my truth, all my feelings.
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Sabu
(Music & lyrics: Tcheka / Arr.: Hernani Almeida) |
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Sabu sent me to the countryside
But the wind of Rui Vaz
Brought away Mama’s basket
Tomorrow we have to go harvest in the bush
In what might I transport so that my father may eat?
Sabu da Tina, take me home
At home the young people catched me
Sabu take me away, I’ll go off anyway
But tomorrow I’ll go off anyway
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Our life
(Music & lyrics: Luis Paris / Arr.: Bau) |
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It’s time to live like people
That’s enough, my brothers,
Be aware,
It’s time to put an end
To this hatred and vengeance
Let's live our lives
With goodness in our hearts
Brothers, let's live with love
And tenderness
Let's live, let's love with love and harmony
It’s time to remember why we are born small
Let's see the past again
We have grown up, grown up forever
Let's not allow vengeance
Ignorance to take our minds
Let's not allow vengeance
Ignorance to take our minds
Let's not allow vengeance
Ignorance to take our thoughts
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The enclosure has no goat
(Music & lyrics: popular / Arr.: Bau) |
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At the first time I've been at North
I had three loves, I had three loves
All at once
First in João Galego, second in Fonte Figuera,
Third in Cabeça Tarafe, all at once
The girls of João Galego
All give berth to boys
The ones of Cabeça Tarafe
All give berth to girls
Oh the Great God is God
Oh Calamity God
It’s already day time in Bubista
The enclosure has no goat
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I'll go far off
(Music & lyrics: Vasco Martins / Arr.: Bau) |
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I'll go far off
To follow my destiny
Follow my space
To mark out my way
Landlike sea of Japan
I'll certainly go
I'll take a poem in my heart
Oh, oh, I sing for all those
Who know how to listen
My islands vibrate in music
A morna is a song of life
In a far-off town
I sang our history
It was a song more than five
Hundred years old
They gave me a flower, I kept it
For a few days
I watered it to keep it longer
Oh, oh, I sing to all those
Who know how to listen
My islands vibrate in music
A morna is a song of life
My soul, I'll go far
Far is big because blue is in it
With will, I'll go far, my soul
Because blue is in it
I sing I'll go far
For all those who know how to listen
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Reposta minininhas
de Monte Sossego
(Music & lyrics: Manuel d'Novas / Arr.: Bau) |
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Those girls from Monte Sossego
In any case, you forgive them
Don’t speak harshly of them
Because they have right on their side
They come as far as town
Clean, absolutely certain,
And if they give in to fancy
They’re in fashion
They’re criticized by false critics
Perhaps someone wishes them ill
Oh Franck, you’re so nasty
God is in Heaven so that
He can see
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Stone
(Music & lyrics: Vasco Martins / Arr.: Hernani) |
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Stone, I don’t want to be a stone
On the shore of this life
Sun, I want the sun in your eyes
In your soul, in our life
Universe of sun
Universe of peace
I want a very green plant of love
I want a hand in this great sea
That helps me
That helps me
Stone
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