Caravelas!

Caravelas!

Ao luzuiro dar estrelas

Na rota dum ideal

Vao singrando em caravelos

Marujos de Portugal

Lit by the starlights

Seeking an ideal

Making a path through the ocean

Sailors of Portugal

A sulcar o mar profundo

De lendas e de misterios

Dao novos mundos ao mundo

Dilatando a fe eo Imperio

Opening a furrow in the deep ocean

The legends and the mysteries

Giving new worlds to the world

Expanding the faith in the Empire (Portuguese)

Caravelas!

Veles postas ao luar

Caravelas

Abriram rumos no mar

Caravelas

Nas velas levando a cruz

Caravelas

Encheram o mundo de luz.

Caravelas!

Sails set under the moonlight

Caravelas!

Opening routes in the ocean

Caravelas!

Carrying the cross on their sails

Caravelas!

They filled the world with light!

Note: A WELL KNOWN SONG

“My mother used to sing that to us” Fatinha

Odelia and Maria Zinna quando endavam en Santo Antonio (Colegio)

“A Caravela is a sailing ship with too many masts! Nina, Pinta, St Maria!”

(TR5)