Trovas

Quem se condói do meu fado
Vê bem como agora eu ando
De noite sempre acordado
De dia sempre sonhando
O amor perturbou-me tanto
Que este contraste deploro
Querendo chorar eu canto
Querendo cantar eu choro

Curvado à lei dos pesares
Não sei se morro ou se vivo
Senhor dos outros olhares
Só do teu fiquei cativo.
Por isso a verdade nua
Este tormento contém
Minh'alma não sendo tua
Não será de mais ninguém!	

Translation(s): ENG FRE

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Submitted by Mirna Rubim

Authorship

• by Osório Duque Estrada (1870 - 1927) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Trovas", op. 29 no. 1 (1901). [voice and piano] [ sung text verified 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Mirna Rubim) , "Trovas", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chansons", written 1911, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Trovas

 Who feels pity of my fado1
 Can see how I have been
 At night, always awake,
 At day, always dreaming,
 Love disturbed me so much
 That I hate this contrasting:
 When I wish to cry I sing
 When I wish to sing I cry
 
 I don't know 
 if I die of if I live
 Owner of other gazes
 Only yours has made me slave
 Thus, the naked truth
 Contains this torment:
 If my soul is not yours
 It will not be anyone's.

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¹ Portuguese folk song.

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• a text in Portuguese (Português) by Osório Duque Estrada (1870 - 1927) FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Alberto Nepomuceno. Go to the text.

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