Saturday, July 6, 2013

Miss Perfumado: Assim dxam morrê ô flor (Let me die in this way, my flower)

Let me die dreaming
Under the vigil of sad eyes
Of a kind young lady
With a sweet-scented body
Let me die in this way, my flower
Under the shade of your gentle little eyes
Let me die dreaming
Like a dove into her nest
If the dove is happy in her nest
So am I, under the look
And the caresses from
This sweet-scented miss.

Miss Perfumado, Portuguese fado sung by Cesária Évora, translated in English.



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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous15:54

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  2. Anonymous17:39

    How lovely:)

    Gina

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  3. Violaine00:00

    Beautiful, really. Sad, but very touching. Have a nice w-end. V

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  4. Unknown02:13

    Really nice like it...

    www.rorsa.com

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  5. NadineisthatU05:31

    Thanks for the intro to Cesaria Evora. I read the entry on Wikipedia, on her, and Cape Verde. So now I have the YouTube playlist on. No words.

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  6. Ana17:12

    It’s lovely, but it is not a fado. I believe this songs is best categorized has a Morna, a popular genre in Cape Verde

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  7. Anonymous01:10

    i like the first line by itself:

    let me die dreaming.

    nice way to go, no? and full of double meaning.

    cheers,
    minette

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  8. Perfumeshrine13:59

    Ana,

    "morna" it is then! I like the sad feeling of fados, I suppose I am carried away by the poignancy of the lyrics here. Thanks for the correction.

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  9. Perfumeshrine14:00

    J,

    the best possible way, in my books :-)

    (It is a song with such lovely lyrics, as there is poignancy in choosing how to pass away, but also a sense of capturing a last remnant of control over it, therefore a victory of sorts)

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  10. sibilum21:33

    That's lovely! And what a weird portuguese (my mother language is portuguese, but from Brazil)

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  11. Perfumeshrine13:29

    S,

    isn't it?

    Unfortunately I can' profess an opinion on the Portuguese, though it sounds lovely to my ear in any incarnation (Latin-derived languages always do).

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