Meu amor é marinheiro [English translation]

6 My love is a sailor

And he lives in the high sea

His arms are like the wind

No one can tie them down

7 When he comes to my shore

All my blood is a river

Where the love docks

My heart a ship

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9 My love said that I had

In the mouth a taste of saudade1

And some hairs where

The winds and freedom are born

3 My love is a sailor

When he comes to my shore

He kindles a carnation in the mouth

And sings in this way

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12 I live there far away, far away

Where the ships live (Cristina: They pass)

But one day I will return

To the waters of our rivers

13 I will pass through the cities

Like the wind on the sands

And open all the winds

And open all the prisons

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16 That's the way I speak my love

That's the way he spoke to me one day

Since then I live in waiting

That he'll return as he said

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20 My love is a sailor

And he lives in the high sea

Heart that was born free

Cannot be fettered up

1. Concept similar to nostalgia