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Anèn toui  
(Let everybody go)
Traditional Christmas carol from Lucéram and Villefranche-sur-Mer, County of Nice, collected by the canon Henri Carol.
| 1st verse |
Anèn toui gèn dòu village
Noun cregnèn lou marit temp.
Faguèn toui aquèu viage
Per li festa en Betelèn.
Lu ange nou van guidant
Que per l’aria van cantant
La pas, la joia, l’amour.
N’ès naissu lou Redèntour. | | Let everybody go, people of the village,
Don’t let us be afraid of bad weather.
Let’s have this trip together
For the feasts in Bethlehem.
The angels go guiding us
Who in the air go and sing
Peace, joy, love.
He was born for us, the Redeemer. |
2nd verse |
Es naissut au plen de l’iver,
Sensa legna, sensa fuèc,
Au mitan dei doui jumèu,
Sus la paia, sus lou fen.
Tres rei an vist de lume,
Soun partit de l’Ourient.
L’estela li fa carriera
E li guida en Betelèn. | | He was born in the bleak midwinter,
Without wood (1), without fire,
In the middle of the two twins (2),
On the straw, on the hay.
Three kings saw a faint light,
They left from Middle East.
The star “make them the street (3)”
And guide them to Bethlehem. |
3rd verse |
Sarès surprès a lou creire
D’un Diéu tant pichin enfant,
Fa coumpassioun de lou veire
Paure, tout nut e tremblant.
Saupessias que n’es aquéu
Que maneja lou soulèu,
Qu’es aquéu que fa tremblà
Lou ciel, la terra e la mar ? | | You will be surprised to believe this
From a God so little child,
[This] does compassion to see him
Poor, stark naked and trembling.
Did you know he is the one
Who manage the sun,
The one who make
Sky, earth and sea tremble? |
1. Legna, wood, means here firewood.
2. I.e. the ox and the donkey of the nativity scene.
3. I.e. show them the way.
| Bibliography | | • | Delrieu (Georges), Anthologie de la chanson niçoise (Anthology of the Song from Nice), Nice, publisher Delrieu & Co, 1960, p. 227. | | • | 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. 22. |
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