Manuel de Almeida – Fado Antigo

Manuel de Almeida – Fado Antigo Lyrics

Artist: Manuel de Almeida
Song: Fado Antigo

Meu velho fado corrido
Se foste dos mais bairristas
Porque te mostras esquecido
Na garganta dos fadistas

Explicou-me um velho amigo
Como o fado era tratado
Tinha graça o fado antigo
Da forma que era cantado

Um ramo de loiro à porta
Indicava uma taberna
À noite era uma lanterna
Com sua luz quase morta

Sobre os cascos da vinhaça
Deitada em forma bizarra
Estava sempre uma guitarra
Para servir de negaça

O canjirão da murraça
De tosco barro vidrado
Andava sempre colado
Aos copos, pelo balcão

E era assim nesta função
Como o fado era cantado
Se aparecia um tocador
Às vezes até zaranza

Pedia ao tasqueiro a banza
Para mostrar seu valor
Logo havia um cantador
Dando um tom de certo perigo

Provocava o inimigo
No cantar à desgarrada
Até às vezes, com lambada
Tinha graça o fado antigo

Pouco tempo decorrido
Cheia a taberna se via
P’ra escutar a cantoria
Ao som do fado corrido;

Todos prestavam sentido
Quando alguém cantava o fado
O tocar era arrastado
O estilo dava a garganta

Hoje pouca gente o canta
Da forma que era cantado
Escutei com atenção
Um cantador do passado

E a sua linda canção
Prendeu-me p’ra sempre, ao fado
Por muito que se disser
O fado é canção bairrista

Não é fadista quem quer
Mas sim quem nasceu fadista
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Fado Antigo Lyrics – English Translation

My old fado run
You were the most bairysts
Because you show you forgotten
In the throat of the fadistas

Explained an old friend
As the fado was treated
It had grace the old fado
The way it was sung

A blond branch at the door
Indicated a tavern
At night it was a flashlight
With its almost dead light

About the vineyards
Lying in bizarre
I was always a guitar
To serve as a denim

The Canjirão da Murraça
Of rough clay
I was always glued
To the glasses, by the balcony

And this was so in this function
How Fado was sung
A player appeared
Sometimes even zaranza

Asked the tasqueiro the banza
To show your value
There was a singer soon.
Giving a tone of a certain danger

Caused the enemy
In the singing to the
Until sometimes, with lambada
It had grace the old fado

Little time elapsed
Full the tavern
P’ra listen to the singing
To the sound of fado run;

All made sense
When someone sang fado
Touching was dragged
The style gave the throat

Today little people sings
The way it was sung
I listened carefully
A past singer

And your beautiful song
He arrested to me always, to the fado
As much as it says
The fado is song bairrista

It’s not a fadista who wants
But rather who was born fadista
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Manuel de Almeida Lyrics – Fado Antigo

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From the album:
O Álbum Prateado do Fado, Vol. 2
Release Year: 2020