1- VOLTA SE QUERES 303
(Fernando João / Nel Garcia)
COME BACK, IF YOU WISH!
After your course,
Come back, if you wish!
Come back, come back to me.
I'll go in search of sunshine, hope,love...
I'll give you freedom
To carry you towards truth.
For you are truth!
AMOR DE FEL, AMOR DE MEL 334
(Amália Rodrigues / Carlos Gonçalves)
BITTER LOVE, SWEET LOVE
I cannot confess my love,
I can but shed tears for it.
Its a painful love, but a major love,
Of wich I sing in a minor key.
But its the best of my Fado
3- ROSA MARIA 300
(João Dias / Moniz Pereira)
ROSA MARIA
What better
Than to marry for love!
She beautiful!
He a fisherman!
Born looking out from Lisbon,
The ocean their horizon.
4- NO SPRO DESTA VOZ 348
(Fernando João / Alfredo Marceneiro)
THE MURMUR OF MY VOICE
Deep in my voice lie hidden
The remains of a lost love.
Deep in my voice there are
Poems in the form of flower petals.
Let us play he loves me, he loves me not,
And allow ourselves to be carried gently
By the murmurs of soul and heart.
5- ENCONTRO 317
(Mané / Nel Garcia)
MEETING
A cold sea in winter,
I soaked up the suns light,
Then went in search of myself,
But I found only my body...
The rudder of a boat with no haven,
Because that was what the sea wanted.
And suddenly, unexpectedly...
You were there!
6- UN POEMA EM CADA UM 232
(Fernando João / Miguel Ramos)
A POEM WITHIN EACH OF US
No one, no one will ever
Be able to read what is written
Within each of us,
And yet...there is a poem there!
A poem telling
Of our springtime,
Of our dreams,
Of our courage tinged with magic!
Perhaps we should simply give voice to our hearts!
7- ALFAMA 302
(José Carlos Ary dos Santos / Alain Oulmain)
ALFAMA
It is this unique perfume a mixture of solitude, tears and sadness, and the sea that gazes upon it that gives Alfama, this old quarter of Lisbon, inhabited in its depths by Fado, the magical appearance of wich the Portuguese are so proud.
8- PEDI À VIDA...SAUDADE 300
(Mané / Franklin Godinho)
I ASKED MY LIFE FOR SAUDADE
Yes!
No!
Life has given me so many answers
And yet I had but one doubt,
I had but one certainty:
Why god had made me...
Even death could not separate us!
9- TEU NOME DE AREIA 321
(Mané / Acácio Gomes)
YOUR NAME OF SAND
Let us go elsewhere!
This taste of the ephemeral that your name of sand suggests to me,
Leave my hands empty for hours that I would have liked to tame.
Even the seagulls
No longer have shores on wich to land.
But...there they are murmuring to me...
Finally, it is your name
That has made me
10- COMO SE CHAMA O SENTIR ? 412
(Fernando João / Cavalheiro Júnior)
WHAT IS THIS FEELING CALLED?
This feeling, oh so tormented,
About which I sing tonight,
Sometimes silently, sometimes laughing...
Tell me!
Is it poetry?
Is it saudade?
Tell me!
11- QUANDO SE GOSTA DE ALGUÉM 159
(Amália Rodrigues / Fontes Rocha)
WHEN WE LOVE SOMEBODY
When we love somebody, we forget ourselves.
How can we love a love
That blinds us,
That makes us ill,
That binds us so tightly that we can hardly breathe!
Its just that...
When we love as I love
The sadness that sweeps over us is a form of hapiness.
12- LONGA CAMINHADA
(Ana Madalena / Nel Garcia)
SO MANY PATHS
After travelling along so many paths...
I have reached the autumn of my life.
I feel weary,
But not defeated.
I cannot remain silent.
I have one last poem
To offer you.
I carry it in my heart,
I sing it to you with this voice.
There is not enough love and peace in the world...
I am exhausted.
In the autumn of my life,
Still I do not want silence.
13- GUITARRADA (medley)
Fado Mayer (Armandinho Freire)
Júlia Florista (Max)
Porto Santo (Max)
Rosinha dos Limões (Max)
Porto sentido (Rui Veloso)
Vou dar de beber à dôr (Alberto Janes)