Little Country

Artista: Cesária Évora
Canción: Petit Pays
Traducción: Criollo caboverdiano → Inglés
Publicado por SpencerY el Jue, 11/02/2010 - 08:11
Traducciones: Alemán, Español, Polaco

Criollo caboverdiano

Petit Pays

La na céu bo é um estrela
Ki ca ta brilha
Li na mar bo é um areia
Ki cata moja
Espaiod nesse monde fora
So rotcha e mar

Terra pobre chei di amor
Tem morna tem coladera
Terra sabe chei di amor
Tem batuco tem funana

Oi tonte sodade
Sodade sodade
Oi tonte sodade
Sodade sem fim

Petit pays je t'aime beaucoup
Petit petit je l'aime beaucoup

Comentario del uploader:

Cesária Évora, Petit Pays

Inglés

Little Country

There in the sky you are a star
Here everything shines
There in the sea you are a sandy seafloor
Here everything is wet
Watching this world outside
There's only rocky cliffs and sea

Poor country full of love
With Morna and Coladera songs
Wise country full of love
With drum circles and Funaná music

Oh so much homesickness
homesickness, homesickness
Oh so much homesickness
Homesickness without end

Little country I love you so much
Little one I love it so much

Comentario del autor:

This song is in the Sao Vicente criollo dialect from Sao Vicente in the Cabo Verde islands. Morna, Coladera, and Funaná are types of local music. Since I'm not from Cabo Verde, I could be off on some of the translation, but the gist of it is right. Part of the translation comes by using the glossary at http://www.mindelo.info/dico_creole_francais_abc.php.