Rui Veloso — Sayago Blues song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Sayago Blues" by Rui Veloso.
Lyrics
Subo e deso este rio
Da miranda ao aranho
Sob a torreira e o frio
Fao a escarpa brotar vinho
Sonhei que era o mississipi
E que memphis era no pinho
Vindimando ao som de adufe
Bandolim e acordeo
(Refro)
Rio abaixo rio acima
A dar aos remos no rabelo
Rio abaixo rio acima
Sayago paira por cima
O sonho vira pesadelo
Vinha eu no meu caco
A ouvir das guas do douro
Velhas lendas de fronteira
Entre o cristo e o mouro
Quando vi um pescador
A olhar o rio inconsolvel
Que da enguia e do robalo
Da tainha e do svel
(Refro)
Lyrics translation
Up and down this river
From miranda to Spider
Under the torreira and the cold
Fao the escarpment sprout wine
I dreamed it was Mississippi
And that memphis was in the pine
Harvesting to the sound of adufe
Mandolin and accordion
(Cooling)
River below River above
To give to the oars in the rabelo
River below River above
Sayago hovers over
The dream turns nightmare
I was coming in my poop
Listening to the Douro waters
Old frontier legends
Between Christ and the moor
When I saw a fisherman
Looking at the river inconsolable
That of the eel and the sea bass
From mullet and svel
(Cooling)