Amália Rodrigues — A Tendinha song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "A Tendinha" by Amália Rodrigues.
Lyrics
Junto ao arco de bandeira
Há uma loja tendinha
De aspecto rasca e banal
Na história da bebedeira
Ai, aquela casa velhinha
É um padrão imortal
Velha taberna
Nesta Lisboa moderna
É da tasca humilde e terna
Que mantém a tradição
Velha tendinha
És o templo da pinguinha
Dois dois brancos, da ginginha
Da boêmia e do pimpão
Noutros tempos, os fadistas
Vinham, já grossos das hortas
Pra o teu balcão returrar
E inspirados, os artistas
Iam pra aí, horas mortas
Ouvir o fado e cantar
Lyrics translation
Next to the flag arch
There is a tent shop
Of a scrawny and banal appearance
In the history of drunkenness
Oh, that old house.
It's an immortal pattern
Old tavern
In this modern Lisbon
It is from the humble and tender tasca
That keeps the tradition
Old tent
You're the Penguin temple
Two two white, ginginha
From Bohemia and pimp
In other times, the fadists
They came, already thick from the gardens
For your counter to return
And inspired, the artists
They were going there, dead hours
Listen to fado and sing