Mar Azul [English translation]

Oh sea

Please calm your waves and let me go

Please let me go see my land once more

Please let me save my Mother, oh sea

Blue sea, slowly rise your tide

Full moon, give me light on my way

so I can go to my land

Go to my little São Vicente1

and hug my love...

Oh sea

The years pass by and time flies

The sun comes up and the moon leaves the sky

And I'm still away from my land...

Oh Sea

1. São Vicente is the island where the singer was born. It's one of the ten major islands that comprises the Cape Verde archipelago.

• Artist:Cesária Évora
• Album:Mar Azul (1991)