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Cantas fiheta !  
(Let Sing, Little Girl!)
Traditional song from Peille, County of Nice.
| 1st verse |
« Oh cantas, cantas fiheta,
Fiheta da marida.
Oh cantas, cantas fiheta,
Fiheta da marida. (twice) | | “O sing, sing, little girl,
Little girl to be married.
O sing, sing, little girl,
Marriageable little girl. (twice) |
2nd verse |
— Ma que n’en voulès que canti
Can en ai moun couor passa ? (...) | | — But what do you want I sing
When I get my heart passed (1)? (...) |
3rd verse |
« Li a de mes e de semana
Que n’ai vist moun ami. (...) | | “There are months and weeks
I have not seen my friend. (...) |
4th verse |
— O venès mai lou dimenche,
Lou dimench’après dinà. (...) | | — O come again on Sunday,
Sunday afternoon. (...) |
5th verse |
— E doun n’en voulès que vengui ?
Dapertout l’ai recercat ! (...) | | — And where do you want I come?
Everywhere I searched for him! (...) |
6th verse |
— Su lou cantoun de la plassa
Lou galan si trouverà. » (...) | | — In the corner of the square
The gallant will stand.” (...) |
7th verse |
Lou bèu grei de majourana
Li fouguet apresenta. (...) | | The beautiful blade (2) of marjoram
Was shown to him. (...) |
8th verse |
Lou si mette à l’aureia
À coustà de soun bounet. (...) | | He puts it over one ear
Next to his bonnet. (...) |
9th verse |
Pi aganta Margarida
E la baia me amour. (...) | | Then catches Margaret
And kisses her with love. (...) |
10th verse |
O couma lou mièu couor canta !
Es la cansoun de l’amour. (...) | | O how my heart sings!
It is the song of love. (...) |
11th verse |
Despi, canta la fiheta ;
Lou galan de l’accoumpagnà ! (...) | | Since, the little girl sings;
The gallant accompanies her! (...) |
In addition to some variants in the Nissart text above, La Belugada replaces last two verses of Cantas fiheta ! by the following:
| 10th verse |
Margarida va à l’aiga
Sus la riba de la mar. (...) | | Margaret goes to the water
On the sea shore. (...) |
11th verse |
N’en crèsia d’estra souleta,
Lou galant à l’acoumpagnà. (...) | | She was thinking to be alone,
The gallant accompanied her. (...) |
1. Or “the heart is broken”, a heavy heart.
2. The fine sprig.
| Bibliography | | • | Delrieu (Georges), Anthologie de la chanson niçoise (Anthology of the Song from Nice), Nice, publisher Delrieu & Co, 1960, p. 40. | | • | 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. 70. |
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