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Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen
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Rosalia de Castro "Alguns din, mina terra"
Some folks say "My native land!"
And others "My belovéd!"
And this one "My sweet memories!"
And that one "My friends!" will reprise.
All are sighing so like these,
What's now to all above hid.
I alone don't raise my hand,
Sigh, nor ever thereof did.
But this clay body will withstand
And my weakened spirit whereto bid
Shall come with me as I command
..........as ever thereto did.
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Marvin Gaye recorded this song also on German
https://youtu.be/beW9AH1Goxg
German sounds even better to me
https://youtu.be/lnku61HozXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X_QjGEN2Og
My own translation and original lyrics:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ningu...-owns-sea.html
Nobody Owns the Sea
If one day I don't come back
draw my name on the floor
ask for a wish to the waves of the sea
and keep it in your hand
Whenever the night comes
when there is no moonlight
give the wish to any wave
and ask it for me to come back
I bring the fate of the waters
in the waiting of the rocks
they say that it's time that erases the sorrows
who is it that erases the fears?
The sea belongs to no one
nobody owns the sea
not even those who know how to sail it
(x2)
And if later I come
it was because the sea listened to you
let the smiles run across the beach
that the storm is over
What are we to do
if the luck is decided
the hands that have us held to death
are of those who hold us to life
I bring a coral of anxieties
for wanting to know you lying down
greater than the pain that comes in the storms
is the one of waiting for the arrival
The sea belongs to no one
nobody owns the sea
not even those who know how to sail it
(x2)
I go soothed by the wind
I walk without a schedule
on the boat there is a lament
that not even I know where it comes from
Prayers have been going though the beach
waiting for the arrival
fate is made gray
whenever the boat doesn't come
and no one... and no one...
The sea belongs to no one
nobody owns the sea
not even those who know how to sail it
(x3)
row, row, row...
(pull the net)
(half astern)
(the net)
(to pull the net)
A grave reminder that is very up to date.
I hope that one day I'll be standing next to some lighthouse on the Faroe Islands in a gloomy day, listening to this. :rolleyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYbKyTfMgs4
Spoiler!
lyrics (en):
Pershingopolis
Oh, if it falls
it's gonna be such a mess that no one's ever again getting off the ground
lets out a radioactive rain
that soaks even the heart
oh, if it falls
oh, if it falls
it opens up a huge hole
lifts up a powdered dust
that takes way the cough
and has the lung blown up
And the thing is, if it falls
there won't be a second time
neither for me, nor for you
nor the Pope, nor the dog
and it is when it falls
it opens up a huge hole
and if it falls, never again will there be anyone to put down the coffin
the thing is, if it falls, never again will there be anyone to put down the coffin
In Tokyo, in Monpracem, in Connecticut
in Vila Nova, Vila Nova d’Ourém
in Minnesota, Vladivostok
in Tripoli, or here
or in the Faroe, or in the Faroe Islands
in Faro, or in the Faroe Islands
In Tokyo, in Monpracem, in Connecticut
in Vila Nova d’Ourém
at the Sorbonne, in Minnesota
Valladolid, or here
or in the Faroe, or in the Faroe Islands
And trying to rebuild
It's gonna be putting up with old Abraham again
the hippies, and the female of the Cro-magnon
neorealism, and the stubborn Timur
the ballistic treaties, and Gengis Dog himself.
Spoiler!
Spoiler!
This song by Fausto Bordalo Dias is, imo, one of the most beautiful classics of Portuguese music, haunting and transcendental beyond words.
Album: Por Este Rio Acima (1982)
(en: Upwards Through This River)
https://i.postimg.cc/xd9kLwBB/fausto-bordalo-dias.jpg
Translation (own work):
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/lembr...beautiful.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU5-b9s0fcY
By Sebastião Antunes e Quadrilha (original by Adriano Correia de Oliveira), a song about the people and lands of the North of Portugal, and its traditional linen and strong textile industry sector.
https://i.postimg.cc/hJc5zszh/g-Seba...Rita-Carmo.jpg
Translation (own work):
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/canca...ong-linen.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPrRpa2yie4
American Pie prologue (Don McLean) en Cadjein (in Cajun):
Trés longtemps passé,
J' me rappelle toujours comment çte belle muséque faisait sourére.
Et j' me savais qu'avéc aine chance
Que j'aurais fait c' mone faire la danse,
Et pétête pour ain temps les faire plaisére.
Mais chaque gazette que j' délivrais-le
Me frissonais ce Février-le:
Des mauvaises nouvelles à
La porte blôquait mes smelles là.
Pas si les larmes est devnues maîte (1)
Quand j'ai li d' sa veuve dans la gazette?
Mais l' cœur disait "Faut qu' ti t'inquètes,
Les jours d' muséque est muettes." (2)
Bein, bâ-bâye, Mameselle Tarte d'Amérique...
1. "Pas si" (I Wonder if), from "Pas sûr si" (Not sure if). "maîte" = master.
2. "est", and all singular auxiliary verbs replace plurals when preceded by plural markers "les, des, ces, mes", etc, unless emphasis is desired. "muette" (mute) is both feminine and masculine, probably from the lingering 17th century pronunciations "mwèt" (muet), masculine, and "mwètuh" (muette), feminine, with final schwa later dropped, but final -t pronunciation retained in "muet", the two forms merging into "muette".
"Green Wine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQi4FTO3fM
Translation (own work): https://lyricstranslate.com/en/paulo...-vinho-english
Green Wine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinho_Verde
Minho region:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minho_Province
"Timor"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdsBAwyFuM
Translation (own work): https://lyricstranslate.com/en/luis-...-timor-english
"Butterfly"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T8avhXvTbI
Translation (own work): https://lyricstranslate.com/en/coro-...boleta-english