Composer: Jacinto Silva
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The English translation is below the Portuguese lyrics
Full lyrics
Olha o lenço, olha o lenço
Olha o lenço de Sinhá
Menina me de o lenço
Que a morena mandou dar
Lenço branco é casamento
Lenço verde é esperança
Meu amor aquele lenço
Eu guardei como lembrança
Meu amor quando fugiu
Minha roseira murchou
Meu xexéu de bananeira
Bateu asa e voou
Sofre muito neste mundo
Quem não tem uma querida
Quem amar sem ser amado
Vive roendo por vida
Vive triste o coração
Que consagrou a amizade
Depois da separação
A gente fica na saudade
Translation
Look at the handkerchief, look at the handkerchief
Look at Miss's handkerchief
Girl give me the handkerchief
That the brunette sent to give
White handkerchief is marriage
Green handkerchief is hope
My love that handkerchief
I kept as a memory
My love when he fled
My rose bush withered
My banana tree oriole
Flapped its wings and flew
Suffers a lot in this world
Who doesn't have a loved one
Who loves without being loved
lives gnawing for life
The heart lives sad
Who consecrated friendship
After the separation
We are left with longing
