Lencinho Querido [English translation]

I keep the white handkerchief

That you forgot when you left me

Stained with the crimson red that

I took off my lips when I kissed you

I kept your handkerchief, in order to remind me/myself

The kiss we left on it

And when I saw my lips

I cry to remember

That then you left, never coming back again

I keep the white handkerchief

That you forgot when you left me

Stained with the crimson red that

I took off my lips when I kissed you

White handkerchief, what an illusion

It was that crazy love

Everything now is loneliness

He won't ever come back

My friend the handkerchief, stayed with me

A loyal companion that did not abandon me

Dear handkerchief, what shall I do

If I can't forget that love?

The evening was cold

And cold also was my heart

And when I noticed that he was leaving

On the white handkerchief

I cried your betrayal