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Coimbra tem mais encanto 🇵🇹 Fernando Machado Soares
O fado 🇵🇹

Went to hear fado in Evora last April; but I remember the first time I heard this in Coimbra.

Fado can be funny but I prefer the bittersweet laments.

I sing "A vida tem mais encanto na hora da despedida" Life is most enchanting at the hour of saying goodbye.

I would sing it to Jimmy Carter if I could. He's had a long fulfilled life. I wish him well. At 98 it's time to let go. We faced this last year when my mother died in March at 99. This evening I was brought home by a young man of 81 years on his peddle cab. I was thrilled. May he too have an enchanted end; may he have many more years of health.

In the past I couldn't hold back the tears when I sang this song. Tonight I don't want to wake up Ponnya.

Yes... life can be sweet at the end.



Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.
Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.

Que as lágrimas do meu pranto
São a luz que me dá vida.

Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.
Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.

Quem me dera estar contente
Enganar minha dor
Mas a saudade não mente
Se é verdadeiro o amor.

Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.
Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.

Não me tentes enganar
Com a tua formosura
Que para além do luar
Há sempre uma noite escura.

Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.
Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.

Que as lágrimas do meu pranto
São a luz que lhe dá vida.

Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.
Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.

Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.
Coimbra tem mais encanto
Na hora da despedida.

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