Valsa do Vai Não Vás [English translation]

If you want to be a better woman

Embark on an island

If any boy

Should be there

It is no longer deserted, the island

If you get better and I should want you

Do not forget on this island

That I will not want a better woman

Woman, I will want you (to be) mine

If you want, however, to enrich (yourself further)

Emigrate somewhere else

If in another land you are fulfilled

It was good for you to be over there

And if someone then wants you

Don’t forget that somewhere

For me you are a rich woman

You did not have to leave

You may even want to beautify yourself

But you’re going to make me so sad

I do not want a more beautiful woman

One more beautiful does not exist.