Eu tenho um melro [English translation]

I have a blackbird, that is something else

In the day it sleeps, at night it eats and sings the fado.

And there in the building they hear it sing

They even suspect that i hide someone for no one to see

I have a blackbird, there in my room

It's not free because if it flies it'll fall on the cats.

I cut its wings off so it can't fly

It uses its feathers in its poems to cradle me.

Blackbird, Blackbird and if by chance someone catches you

Tell them you're not by yourself, that you're awaited in your home.

Blackbird, Blackbird and if by chance someone captures you

Don't ever sing fado again, you don't want to see me suffer.

And don't ever come back,

For these windows, i won't ever open them again.

I have a blackbird

That is a prodigy

It doesn't shave

It doesn't make the bed

Neglects the nest.

But it sings the fado

Like no one else

I even brag that i have a blackbird

No one else has.

I have a blackbird

(which is a man)

It's not a man

(then who is it)

Its from the canorous birds, the one that wants me the most

(it must be a man)

Oh, no it isn't

(then it's a women)

How could it be

It's just a blackbird which gives happiness to fall asleep with

Blackbird, Blackbird

In the chance someone catches you

Tell them you're not by yourself, that you're awaited in your home.

Blackbird, blackbird, and if by chance someone captures you

Don't ever sing fado again, you don't want to see me suffer.

And don't ever come back.

For these windows, i won't ever open them again.

And don't ever come back

Because in your cage fits other animals.