Paroles et traduction Nando Reis - A menina e o passarinho

A menina e o passarinho

Nosso amor começou certo dia no banco da praça
Eu a vi segurando um caderno, sentada com graça
Meu olhar encontrou seu olhar mirando um passarinho
Machucado, ferido, sangrando, fora do seu ninho
Ela levantou e se aproximou da pequenina ave
Que tentava em vão atingir o alto de sua árvore
Foi então que a vi derrubar um modesto lencinho
Que depressa apanhei e tentei lhe entregar com carinho

Mas eu pensei que o amor só fosse alegria
Nunca imaginava que amando
Fosse infeliz algum dia

Percebi que o lencinho da moça estava molhado
E eram lágrimas que escorriam de seu rosto pálido
Condoído tentei lhe falar, mas minha voz não saía
Em minha vida inteira jamais moça tão linda eu vira
Estendi minha mão para o lenço à donzela entregar
Mas senti sua mão muito fria como se ela fosse desmaiar
Eu depressa peguei a mocinha e carreguei-a em meu colo
E sem querer esmaguei o bichinho que estava ferido no solo

Mas eu pensei que o amor só fosse alegria
Nunca imaginava que amando
Fosse infeliz algum dia

Sem saber o que eu iria fazer continuei caminhando
A boneca em meus braços caída e eu me apaixonando
Eis que então um garoto de mim se aproxima correndo
"Ela é minha irmã e está muito doente" ele foi logo dizendo
Me pediu que levasse a maninha em sua moradia
"Minha mãe já morreu, o meu pai se mandou, moramos com uma tia"
Logo chegamos e assim que adentrei à singela casinha
No sofá estendi com cuidado a minha doce princesinha

Mandei o garoto chamar de imediato um doutor na cidade
Enquanto a tia chorando agradecia a minha caridade
O doutor logo assim que adentrou sua testa franzia
E ao sair ainda me cochichou "Ela só tem poucos dias"
Já era noite e eu tinha que deixar a formosa donzela
Da calçada ainda olhei a menina através da janela
No portão entreguei ao irmão o meu endereço
"Precisamos curar a menina seja qual for o preço"

Mas eu pensei que o amor só fosse alegria
Nunca imaginava que amando
Fosse infeliz algum dia

Passei os dias indo visitar a minha flor mais doente
Meu coração cada vez que a via queimava mais que aguardente
Nem com remédio nem medicamento a menininha melhorava
Cada vez que a pequena me via de tanto chorar os seus olhos inchavam
Mas foi numa manhã que eu ia saindo que o irmão me trouxe a notícia
A menina já estava morrendo era pra eu ir com urgência
Cheguei correndo e a pobre ao me ver falou em seu último suspiro
"Nosso amor só está começando agora que eu me retiro"

The Girl and the Little Bird

Our love began one day on a park bench
I saw you holding a notebook, sitting gracefully
My gaze met yours, looking at a little bird
Injured, wounded, bleeding, outside its nest
You stood up and approached the tiny bird
That tried in vain to reach the top of its tree
It was then that I saw you drop a modest handkerchief
Which I quickly picked up and tried to hand you with care

But I thought that love was only joy
I never imagined that loving
I would be unhappy someday

I noticed that the girl's handkerchief was wet
And they were tears that ran down her pale face
Compassionate, I tried to speak to you, but my voice wouldn't come out
In my entire life, I had never seen such a beautiful girl
I extended my hand to give the handkerchief to the damsel
But I felt her hand very cold as if she were going to faint
I quickly picked up the girl and carried her in my arms
And inadvertently crushed the little creature that was injured on the ground

But I thought that love was only joy
I never imagined that loving
I would be unhappy someday

Not knowing what I was going to do, I kept walking
The doll in my arms fallen and me falling in love
Then a boy approaches me running
"She is my sister and she is very sick" he said immediately
He asked me to take his little sister to his home
"My mother has already died, my father left, we live with an aunt"
We soon arrived and as soon as I entered the simple little house
On the sofa, I carefully laid down my sweet little princess

I sent the boy to immediately call a doctor in the city
While the aunt, crying, thanked me for my charity
The doctor, as soon as he entered, furrowed his brow
And as he left, he still whispered to me "She only has a few days left"
It was already night and I had to leave the beautiful maiden
From the sidewalk I still looked at the girl through the window
At the gate I gave her brother my address
"We need to cure the girl, whatever the cost"

But I thought that love was only joy
I never imagined that loving
I would be unhappy someday

I spent the days going to visit my sickest flower
My heart, every time I saw her, burned more than brandy
Neither with medicine nor medication did the little girl improve
Every time the little one saw me, her eyes swelled from crying so much
But it was one morning as I was leaving that her brother brought me the news
The girl was already dying, I had to go urgently
I arrived running and the poor girl, upon seeing me, spoke in her last breath
"Our love is only just beginning now that I am leaving"