Songs from dreadful days

Pergunto ao vento que passa Noticias do meu país E o vento cala a desgraça O vento nada me diz Mas há sempre uma candeia Dentro da própria desgraça Há sempre alguém que semeia Canções no vento que passa Mesmo na noite mais triste Em tempos de servidão Há sempre alguém que resiste Há sempre alguém que diz não

I ask the blowing breeze News about my country And the wind hides doom The wind tells me nothing But there is always a light Even within misfortune There's always someone who seeds Songs in the passing breeze Even in the saddest night In times of servitude There’s always someone resisting There’s always someone who says no

Trovas do Vento que Passa (mp3 link working for a week only)

The one who sung this was gone too early. I never had the privilege to meet Adriano Correia de Oliveira. But those playing the guitars behind him taught me a lot about those days. Song was a weapon while Portugal was ruled as a dictatorship. One day I must write some more about their 'lessons'.

PS: My mistake, the poem is in fact by Manuel Alegre. Sometimes I swap which one of them wrote what. Adriano sung many of his own poems, but he also sung poems by others. Thanks DP.