Vou ouvir «O Boi do Mar»
Na voz de José Ferreira
Victor Rui Dores a remar
Numa canoa baleeira.

O arpão é o sustento
De quem vive de sonhar
Entre as ondas e o vento
Passam as forças do mar.

José do Carmo Francisco, poeta

“A Quick Song for Victor Rui Dores”
by José do Carmo Francisco
Translated by Katharine F. Baker

I’m going to listen to “O Boi do Mar”
As sung by José Ferreira
Victor Rui Dores rowing
In a whaleboat.

The harpoon is the sustenance
Of those who live by dreaming
Between the waves and wind
Pass the forces of the sea