Canção do Lenço

My life is a romance
Of sadness and illusion
It seems like destiny
Wanted to betray me

Hope is lost
When I tell my life
It hurts any heart

I've loved, I've been loved
I've lived quite content
I've enjoyed my childhood
I've taken great advantage

I've enjoyed my youth
I never thought that longing
Would come to dwell in my chest

One night of Saint Anthony
I went to dance at the hall
I met a girl
Of a beautiful appearance
And I invited her to dance
And I felt love sprout

Inside my heart
I asked the girl
If she was committed
She then replied to me
I've never loved nor been loved

I kept this friendship
That brings longing
For the rest of my life

After a year and six months
Of this friendship between us
But destiny didn't want
Our love to move forward

Interfering death came
Took away my beloved
Whom I loved madly

One day they warned me
That the girl fell ill
I urgently went to her house
To find out what happened
In this moment of affliction
She had a handkerchief in her hand
She took the handkerchief and gave it to me

She told me she was beyond cure
There's no cure left for me
I'm going to live in the other world
I'll live in the grave

She bid farewell to her parents
Saying goodbye forever
In this moment of bitterness
I kept the handkerchief with me
That I received from her hands
Purple like longing
Embroidered in yellow letters

I lost all hope
Today only the memory remains
Of the love I had for her
The letters of her name
Are an M, an A, and a D
I never had joy again
After she died
When I cried in sorrow
My tears were dried
On the handkerchief she gave me