Nos Morna [English translation]

If you don't want to listen to morna

The genre which is the queen of our land

Move out, go away, leave me here

in this gentle and sweet Cape Verde

Our motherland

The inspiration of our poets

the princess of our serenade

In the night's serene moonlight

Below the window of my beloved one

With the weeping sound of my guitar

Cape Verde without morna

In my opinion is but a land

without sun or heat

Like a bride without wreath

The victory with no glory

of a Christian people

Come tell me your nome

if you are son of Cape Verdeans

Let's unite our voices

So we can sing our morna