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Carneval de Niça-la-Florida
(Carnival of Nice-the-Success)
Traditional song from carnival of Nice
Nissart lyrics by Jules Eynaudi, known as Juli Eynaudi. Traditional from County of Nice.
| 1st verse |
Belli fiheta
De la Couosta d’Azur,
A figureta
Me d’uès d’un blu tant pur:
Es ancuei Carneval,
Aquéu jou de regal,
Aquéu jou de foulìa
Qu’enfebra tant touti li fiha! | | Gorgeous little girls
From the French Riviera,
With little faces
And so pure blue-eyed:
It’s today Carnival,
This day of gifts,
This day gone mad
That so inflames all girls! |
2nd verse |
O vièi frema,
Devès vous despacbà
Per fa carèma.
Se noun poudès marchà:
Cala-v’en su lou Cours
O seguès lou parcours
Dei char e mascarada
E de li longui cavalcada. | | Oh! old women,
You have to hurry
To keep Lent (1).
If you can’t walk:
Come down on the Cours
Or follow the course
Of floats and dressed up
And long cavalcades. |
3rd verse |
E nàutre, fraïre,
Sourten m’un gros lançou.
Per si destraïre,
Lanceren coume fou
Un gros carementran
Jusqu’àu cinquième plan,
Faren la farandola
En pican su de casserola! | | And we, brothers,
Let’s go out with a large sheet.
To amuse us,
We will throw as do madmen
A big jumping jack
Up to the fifth floor,
We will dance farandole
Beating on saucepans! |
4th verse |
Sensa faudiha,
Couma lu nouostr’ancien,
Me la camiha
Que toumba fin ai pen.
Pouòrteren lou beret,
Cadun me de bas net,
La figura pintada,
Canteren touta la journada! | | Without overalls,
As did our elders,
With the shirt
Hanging down to our feet.
We will wear the beret,
Everybody with clean socks,
Painted face,
We will sing all the day long! |
5th verse |
En la bataïa
Noun espragnen degun,
Car si mitraïà
De confetti cadun;
Siguen de ver danat,
Diàu descadenat,
Qu’au canoun de quatr’oura,
Cada soci n’ague n’a fourra! | | During fight
We will spare no one,
Because we pelt
With confetti everyone;
Let’s be real damned,
Wild devils,
At the 4 o’clock (2) cannon
Let each taking part have enough! |
6th verse |
Adieu li festa.
Carneval es brousclat
E lu siéu resta
Van estre lèu brulat.
S’en parten en cantan,
En jugan, en dansan;
Que touta la nuechada
Si fague que d’esquilassada! | | Farewell celebrations.
Carnival is chivvied
And his remains
Are going to quickly be burnt.
We leave singing,
Playing, dancing;
Let all the night
Are done only shouts of joy! |
1. Understand here “to break the Lent fast”, i.e. participate to carnival during the third Thursday in Lent.
2. Not the “noon cannon”, but the one indicating the end of the stream.
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