Diogo e Cabral [English translation]

Diogo Gomes¹ came with his telescope

Maybe his sight wasn’t so good

But since it was during the time of the conquests

Even Thursday got confused with Friday

Oh, my mother, oh, my mother

He went from broke to Cape Verde

He took the past and turned it into the future

And if your people had dark skin

Forget the green I’ve dreamed so green

Oh, my mother, oh, my mother

Today when you look at this blue sea

Consider that it was once red

If history could look in the mirror

North could be South

Oh, my mother, oh, my mother

Diogo Gomes could live up there

Next to the President’s house

Live between three continents

Down here people shout “long live Cabral”

Oh, my mother, oh, my mother

Diogo stands facing the parliament

Amílcar² stands facing the cemetery

My God, what a mystery

Is it nostalgia or oblivion?

Oh, my mother, oh, my mother