Fado da Saudade [English translation]

I sing fado for me

Open the doors which give

out from the heart

And my pain without end

Living in this prison

Leave the prison, go away

Ai, my pain

Without your bitter mourning

I could not sing as I sing

In my embittered corner

Ai, my love

You are now what I suffer and cry?

In the end, I now adore

It is for you I sing fado!

I sing fado for me

I've sung it for the two of us

But that was in the past

Since it's so, let it be

Since you have forgotten me

Now each of us has our own fado

The happiest is yours, I 'am certain

It is an impoverished fado

Which takes away our happiness

If God so willed it

I don't envy you this achievement

Because mine is more fadista

It's the fado of nostalgia

• Artist:Amália Rodrigues