Guitarra, guitarra [English translation]

Oh guitar! Guitar, please

Open my chest with a plaintive key.

Guitar, do silence

That sound which aggrieves me

As it pours deep longing all over me.

Oh guitar! Guitar, you'll feel sorrow;

Don't strum silence for just one man!

Guitarra, your moaning

Comes to cause me greater pain,

Like the wind caressing the cold night...

[Chorus:]

Guitar, do silence

That sound which aggrieves me

For, if I hear you weep

I shall weep myself!

More than the wood

With which they've made you

Oh guitar, your world is where I die...

Oh guitar! Guitar, please

Open my chest with a plaintive key.

[Instrumental]

Oh guitar! Guitar, do stay silent!

Without you, maybe my soul will delude itself...

You'll have to respond

For this deadly instinct

To the weight of this immense longing!

[Chorus:]

Guitar, do silence

That sound which aggrieves me

For, if I hear you weep

I shall weep myself!

More than the wood

With which they've made you

Oh guitar, your world is where I die...

Oh guitar! Guitar, please...

• Artist:Marco Rodrigues
• Album:Fados do fado (2015)