Wednesday 30 June 2021

Mork n Mindy - live at home

Such a great dancing song. What a pity we're living this pandemic :((

Thursday 24 June 2021

Tuesday 22 June 2021

Thursday 10 June 2021

Day of Portugal and Camões ... and Portuguese Language


Portuguese and Galician languages were once the same. Luís de Camões, our 1st great poet (XVI century) and the writer of this poem, had Galician ancestry. This song was written in late 1960s by José Afonso, who had an intense relationship with Galician culture. And me too, I have Galician ancestry. Uxía Senlle is a Galician singer and a great lover of Portuguese culture.



Verdes são os campos
da cor de limão
Assim são os olhos
do meu coração

Campo, que te estendes
com verdura bela
Ovelhas, que nela
vosso pasto tendes

De ervas vos mantendes
que traz o Verão
E eu das lembranças
do meu coração

Isso que comeis
não são ervas, não
São graças dos olhos
do meu coração
Green are the fields
like color of lemon
So are the eyes
of my sweetheart

Field, you extend
with beautiful greenery
Sheep therein
your pasture have

With herbs they endure
brought by the Summer
And I from the memories
of my sweetheart

What you're eating
aren't herbs, no.
Are graces from the eyes
of my sweetheart