Oh, what a lovely young girl | Ah what a lovely young girl

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Manuel Halffter

Ai que linda moça

Language: Portuguese (Português)

Our translations: ENG GER SPA

Ai que linda moça
sai d'aquela choça,
loira e engraçada
leva arregaçada
a saia encarnada
de chita grosseira

E cantarolando
vai gentil guiando,
seu ditoso gado,
seu rebanho amado
sempre enamorado
da canção fagueira

Tudo são tristezas
tristezas e dor
tudo são tristezas
para o meu amor

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Ernesto Halffter Escriche (1905 - 1989), "Ai que linda moça", 1940-1, from Seis Canciones Portuguesas, no. 2. [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Manuel Halffter) , title 1: "Oh, what a lovely young girl", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , title 1: "Ay que linda moza", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Ach welch hübsches Mädchen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Anne Evans

This text was added to the website: 2006-10-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 47

Oh, what a lovely young girl

Language: English after the Portuguese (Português)

Ah what a lovely young girl
is leaving that hovel,
blond and graceful.
Her crimson calico
dress is all 
bunched up

And the pretty thing 
goes humming
guiding her herd.
her beloved flock,
always  enthralled
by her flattering song.

All is sorrow,
sorrow and pain
All is sorrow
for my love

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Portuguese (Português) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2006-10-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 51