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AMIGO JOAO

O meu amigo Joao
Em que terras te perdeste
Se por nada la morreste
Meu amigo meu irmao

De nascenca duvidosa
Proibiram a tua infancia
Transformaram-te em distancia
Como bracos de alcancar

Foste folha a flutuar
Arrastada pela corrente
E o teu suor foi semente
Dos cifroes doutro lugar

Gostavas de ouvir cantar
As modas da nossa terra
E a verdade que se inserra
No seu jeito popular

Teu corpo de tudo dar
Corre nas veias do mundo
Imenso fertil fecundo
Com forca de terra e mar

Ponho em ti o recordar
Na agrura da tua morte
Por sob a terra a gritar
Que nao foi azar nem sorte

E a forca do vento norte
Levou teu grito na mao
Meu amigo meu irmao
Quem forcou a tua sorte

HEY MY FRIEND JOHN

Hey my friend John
Where did you get lost
If you have died there in vain
My friend, my brother

From a dubious birth
They forbade your childhood
They put you at a distance
Like grabbing hands

You were a floating leaf
Taken by the current
And your sweat was the seed
Of someone else's profits

You liked to hear
The songs of your birthplace
And to the truth they hold
In their folksy flair

Your body after giving its all
Runs in the veins of the world
Great, fertile, productive
With the strength of the earth and the sea

When I remember
The sorrow of your death
Screaming under the earth
That it wasn't misfortune or luck

And the strength of the northern sea
Took your scream in hand
My friend, my brother
Who forced your destiny


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