Paroles et traduction Mano Lima - Bandeiras Negras

Bandeiras Negras

Mano Lima, José Humberto de Lima e Edison Campagna
Vim me servir destes teus rios senhora
Juntar-me as pedras e os caracóis
Beber da água da vertente das auroras
Rangir os remos pra iscar anzóis.
Fisgar o peixe que será meu pão
No meu oficio de remar remanso
Ave-marias pra acalmar os ventos
E um Padre Nosso pra seguir pescando
Sendo teu dia não sai para pescar
Enfeitei o barco com recortes de jornais
Bandeiras brancas de noticias negras
Que só você Nossa Senhora apagará
Se as almas acordassem todas
No mesmo porto com seus semelhantes
No outro dia ao voltar as águas
Levariam juntos outros navegantes.

Black Flags

Mano Lima, José Humberto de Lima and Edison Campagna
I came to serve myself from your rivers, my lady
To gather the stones and the snails
To drink from the water of the spring of the auroras
To grind the oars to bait the hooks.
To catch the fish that will be my bread
In my trade of rowing the backwaters
Ave Marias to calm the winds
And a Lord's Prayer to keep on fishing
Being your day, I do not go out to fish
I decorated the boat with newspaper clippings
White flags of black news
That only you, Our Lady, will erase
If all the souls would wake up
In the same port with their fellow beings
The next day, when the waters return
They would carry other navigators together.