La belle de jour [English translation]

Ah hei! Ah hei! Ah hei!

Ah! La Belle de Jour!1

Ah hei! Ah hei! Ah hei!

I remember the pretty girl

Of Boa Viagem beach

And the girl in the middle of the square

On a blue Sunday2

Blue was Belle de Jour

Was the beauty of the afternoon

Her eyes as blue as the afternoon

In the afternoon of a blue Sunday

La Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour!

Oh! Oh!

Belle de Jour!

La Belle de Jour

Was the prettiest girl

In town

And it was just for her

I wrote

My first blues

But Belle de Jour

Traveled in the blue

Her eyes as blue as the afternoon

In the afternoon of a blue Sunday

La Belle de Jour

1. Reference to the movie Belle de Jour, in which a housewife becomes a luxury prostitute in the afternoons while her husband works2. In Portuguese, the word "blue" has a connotation of sunny and happy, not sad as in English. I'd translate it as sunny if there wasn't the metaphor with the eyes of the girl

• Artist:Alceu Valença