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A Hora do Amor

(Homburg)


Nelson Fogaça de Almeida writes to BtP from Brazil

As promised I'm emailing you the info on a recording version for Homburg. The recording, by Agnoldo Timotei, called A Hora do Amor, was launched in the fourth semester of 1968 by Indústrias Elétricas e Musicais Fábrica Odeon SA, a former subsidiary of EMI Records Limited.

Such a stereo recording was inserted in a Long Playing no. SMOFB-3556, and the lyrics, in Brazilian-Portuguese idiom, was written by Geraldo Figueiredo. Literal translation below is by NF Almeida.

Click on the picture to hear an excerptlet from the arrangement.

A Hora do Amor

Loving Time

Há quanto tempo estou chorando

How long I've been weeping

Todo dia toda hora

Every day every hour

Tudo mudou de repente

Every thing changed suddenly

Já não vivo como outrora

I can't live as before no more

Meu amor está tão longe

My babe has been so far

E até já me esqueceu

And she has just forgotten me

O relógio lá da praça

And the clock over there the Square

Não se cansa de marcar

It doesn't get tired of signalling

O tempo de sofrer

Suffering time

O tempo de esperar

Awaiting time

Mas nunca ele pode

But it can never signal

A hora de amar

Loving time

E deste modo solitário

And in a solitary way

Sem motivos p'ra viver

With no reason to live

Vou seguindo meu caminho

I'll keep on tracking my way

Só lembrando de você

Just remembering of her [you]

Meu amor está tão longe

My babe has been so far

E até já me esqueceu

And she has just forgotten me

E o relógio lá da praça

And the clock over there the Square

Se ela um dia escutar

If some day she listens to it

Por certo entenderá

Surely she'll realize

Que estou a lhe chamar

That I've been hailing her

P'ra viver outra vez

To live again

A hora de amar

Loving time


Other non-English versions of Procol Harum songs

About an Italian relation of the above song

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