lyrics Ailà n’aquèu jardin (Over there in this garden) - Traditional song from County of Nice

D’argent à une aigle de gueules, au vol abaissé, membrée, becquée et couronnée d’or, empiétant une montagne de trois coupeaux de sable issant d’une mer d’azur mouvant de la pointe et ondée d’argent.


	Traditional music from County of Nice (France)


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Ailà n’aquèu jardin
(Over there in this garden)
Traditional song from la Tour-sur-Tinée, County of Nice.

This song is a local arrangement from the poem Consert dei passeron ⁽¹⁾ (Concert of the passerines) by Jean-Charles Passeron from Lantosque (1713-1803).

1^st verse
Ailà n’aquèu jardì Es un bèu galofre, un jaissemì, Un bàliqui splendi, Uno majourèno e flou de li, Sou gauch e sou sanjouà, Roso e tulipà Soun aquì per flourì E so viouleto es do cuhì.		Over there in this garden There are a beautiful carnation, a jasmine, A magnificent gillyflower, A marjoram and [a] lily flower The marigold and the lavender, [The] tose and [the] tulip Are here to bloom And the violet is to be picked.
2^nd verse
Aiglo e esporvié Sero e matì siblon voulentié. Merlo e bel quinsou Per nouostre plasir dion uno cansoun. Sou jai, sou darnagas Calon dòu roumegas, Sauton su sou camì E so ballorino fà vis-à-vì.		Eagle and sparrowhawk Evening and morning whistle gladly. Blackbird and beautiful chaffinch For our pleasure say a song. The jay, the shrike Fly down from the bramble bush, Hop on the lane And the wagtail is facing.
3^rd verse
Toriés grans e pichouns, Venès ensèn, noun faguès de façouns, Cantas sou mès de mai, O virà sou brandi manquès jamai. Jouinesso n’a qu’un tèms, Fòu tous estre countèns, Oublidar sei soucis E coumo de fraires vièure unis.		Tourettans ⁽¹⁾ tall and little, Come together, don’t make a fuss, Sing the month of May, To turn the brandi never forget. Youth doesn’t last, We all need to be glad, To be free of worries And, as brothers, live united.

1. First verse from Passeron’s poem, in Italianate written form of the time:
       Aiglià dintr’acheu giardin,
       Li a un nouveu galofre e un deissemin,
       Un beu balichi esplandi,
       Una magiurana e una flou de li,
       Lo gauce e lo tulipan,
       La rosa e lo sangioan
       Son achi per flouri
       E la violetta es gia da cuegli.

2. La Tour-sur-Tinée inhabitants.

Bibliography
•	Delrieu (Georges), Anthologie de la chanson niçoise (Anthology of the Song from Nice), Nice, publisher Delrieu & C^o, 1960, p. 116.
•	Tosan (Albert), Princivalle (Gaël) and d’Hulster (Frédéric), Anthologie de la chanson du comté de Nice (Anthology of the Song from County of Nice), Nice, Serre publisher, series “Encyclopædia niciensis – Patrimoine régional”, volume III, 2001, p. 17.
•	Toselli Jean-Baptiste, Rapport d’une conversation sur le dialecte niçois, Nice, Ch. Cauvin, 1864, p. 101-103.

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