(Thanks, m. :)

Reader mingo sends us this YouTube video of Cabo Verde singer Cesária Évora (1941-2011) and French singer Bernard Lavilliers with "Elle Chante", uploaded in 2009.

The song is found on Lavilliers' 2008 3-CD album, "Carnet De Bord/Arręt Sur Image/Champs Du Possible".

Not exactly a happy song, but pretty. :) I'll include a rough Google translation of the lyrics below the clip.

Thanks to YouTuber nik_am.

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http://youtu.be/RhesEYcpa2g

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She sings a little hazy soft like the wind

It's a wordless melody out of time
She sings with closed eyes, bending the neck
Diving in a distant country you

Then the words she improvises
Are made of violence and colors
His voice was first fluid breaks and strengthens
As the wounds of the soul in the depth of the bark

But whence comes this infinite sweetness
This sensual blend of modesty
Her beautiful hands when they arise
On a shoulder or my arm
Everything metamorphosis
We forget the death we're going

She sings the red earth of the sterile dry
She sings men proscribed the landless in cities
Girls in black and all the children in the streets
The long years without rain and those that never reviewed

She has that gift that light to sing the words to his land
The dream that lulls the wind becomes a big pest
And then innocently about love and warmth

But whence comes this infinite sweetness
This sensual blend of modesty
Her beautiful hands when they arise
On a shoulder or my arm
Everything metamorphosis
We forget the death we're going

She sings the words she improvises
From far depths
His voice was first fluid breaks and strengthens
It is life death fragility and strength
It is life death fragility and strength

Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/bernard-lavilliers/elle-chante-lyrics/

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