Fon fon fon [English translation]

Look at the philharmonic band,

Playing on my street.

My love is a member of it

Blowing his tuba.

He has played the trombone

The clarinet and ferrinhos

He has yet to play my name

Sighed on my ears.

Everybody - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Thinks little of him, saying:

"That the tuba - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Is so unromantic..."

But he plays - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

And my surrendered heart

Just answers - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

With tenderness and affection.

My parents have already told me:

"Don't be crazy, dear!

As for Goldberg Variations,

Glenn Gould's are the good ones"

But I'm not into

Classical music that much:

I like the CCB's view;

And the Gulbenkian's garden.

Everybody - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Thinks little of him, saying:

"That the tuba - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Is so unromantic..."

But he plays - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

And bells ring here inside!

My chest - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Is in rhythm with the tuba.

My friends laugh

At my musical taste

The latest fashion is "electroacoustic"

And "experimental" music

And don't even mention rock,

Samplers and discotheques,

I don't get hip-hop,

And all the new trends are boring!

Everybody - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Thinks little of him, saying:

"That the tuba - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Is so unromantic..."

But he plays - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

And sometimes I can not stand

And I tell them all to go to - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Cause he's gonna be with me.

But he only plays the tuba

And when he's not playing,

People say he goes on;

Blowing, instead of kissing...

Everybody - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Thinks little of him, saying:

"That the tuba - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Is so unromantic..."

But he plays - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

And I follow the fanfare

If love is - oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah

Screw romanticism!