Name: Alfama
Duration: P00H02M59S
Description: Hello esteemed Global Toronto folks! I hope you like this little peek into my eventual album release. This song is a great window into fado and it's birthplace--Alfama, dripping with saudade.

Alfama

by Jennifer Bettencourt

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Hello esteemed Global Toronto folks! I hope you like this little peek into my eventual album release. This song is a great window into fado and it's birthplace--Alfama, dripping with saudade.

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Quando Lisboa anoitece
Como um veleiro sem velas
Alfama toda parece
Uma casa sem janelas
Aonde o povo arrefece

É numa água-furtada
No espaço roubado à mágoa
Que Alfama fica fechada
Em quatro paredes de água

Quatro paredes de pranto
Quatro muros de ansiedade
Que à noite fazem o canto
Que se acende na cidade
Fechada em seu desencanto
Alfama cheira a saudade

Alfama não cheira a fado
Cheira a povo, a solidão
Cheira a silêncio magoado
Sabe a tristeza com pão
Alfama não cheira a fado
Mas não tem outra canção

Alfama não cheira a fado
Cheira a povo, a solidão
Cheira a silêncio magoado
Sabe a tristeza com pão
Alfama não cheira a fado
Mas não tem outra canção

Alfama não cheira a fado
Mas não tem outra canção

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released March 26, 2024
Hernani Raposo - Viola de fado, Guitarra Portuguesa, baixo

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Jennifer Bettencourt Toronto, Ontario

Luso-Canadian Fadista based in Toronto, Ontario.

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