Muito Obrigado. Cesaria Evora ..

It is 4 pm on a Friday in Miami and the sun is still strong .

It was 4 pm on a week day, at Pont street in London, I had put the kettle on to make a cup of tea and the same song came on as it is now playing on Spotify.

 

Miss Perfumada. By Cesaria Evora

I love it now as much as I did when I heard it for the first time when I was studying Anthropology in London

 

Thank you, Cesaria for all these years of listening pleasure and continuing. You will not be forgotten until all the people who had loved you had been forgotten too..

Miss Perfumado

Cesária Évora

Miss Perfumado

Dixa'm morrê ta sonhá
Na sombra di odjo magoado
Duma pequena gentil
Di corpo perfumado
Assim dixa'm môrré ô flor
Na sombra di bô odjinho
Dixa'm morré ta sonhá
Assim cuma pomba na sê ninho
Si pomba…

AND IN ENGLISH 

Let me die dreaming

Under the vigil of sad eyes

Of a kind young lady

With a sweet-scented body

Let me die in this way, my flower

Under the shade of your gentle little eyes

Let me die dreaming

Like a dove into her nest

If the dove is happy in her nest

So am I, under the look

And the caresses from

This sweet-scented miss