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Diéu vous gard’, noste mèstre  
(God be with you, the master)
Dialoguo dòu mèstre e dòu pastre (Dialogue between the master and the shepherd)
Lyrics by Nicolas Saboly, known as Micoulau Sabòli. Traditional from Provence.
Tune Ce n’est qu’un badinage.
This Christmas carol has been published on 1669 in the 2nd book. It appears with number 16 in the Fr. Seguin’s new edition.
| 1st verse |
Lou pastre
Diéu vous gard’, noste mèstre,
Cercas un autre bergié ;
Iéu lou vole plus èstre,
Vous demande moun counjiet.
Lou mèstre
Tu te sies bèn lèu gasta :
La jouinesso
Mau apresso
Demando rèn que la liberta. | | The sheperd
God be with you, the master,
Try to find another shepherd;
Me, I want no longer to be,
I ask you to leave.
The master
You have quickly ruined yourself:
The youth
Badly approached
Asks anything but freedom. |
2nd verse |
Lou pastre
Ves’ eici l’enventàri
De tout ce qu’es au troupèu ;
Se counten lou bestiàri,
Mancara pas uno pèu.
Lou mèstre
Lou bonjour que m’as douna
Taravello
Ma cervello ;
Digo-me dounc vounte vos ana. | | The sheperd
Here is the inventory
Of all what is to the flock;
If we count the livestock,
Not one skin will miss.
The master
The regards you have given me
Torments
My mind;
Tell me where you want to go. |
3rd verse |
Lou pastre
Iéu m’en vau faire un viage
Au païs de Betelèn.
Dounas-m’un pau mei gage,
Ai besoun de moun argent.
Lou mèstre
Aqui passon quand s’envan !
D’ourdinàri
Lou salàri
Se pago pas qu’à la fin de l’an. | | The sheperd
Me, I’m going to have a journey
To the land of Bethlehem.
Give me my wages,
I need my money.
The master
Here they pass when they leave (1)!
Ordinarily
The salary
Is paid only at the end of the year. |
4th verse |
Lou pastre
Mèstre, cresès un sage,
Venès-vous-en emé iéu ;
Vous aurés l’avantage
D’adoura lou Fiéu de Diéu.
Lou mèstre
Me voudriés proun debita
Quauco bourlo,
Marrit chourlo !
N’es pas à iéu que n’en fau counta. | | The sheperd
Master, believe a wise man,
Come with me;
You will get the advantage
To worship God’s Son.
The master
You would want to utter
Some balderdash,
Bad servant aid (2)!
It’s not to me that it’s possible to lie. |
5th verse |
Lou pastre
Es fort bèn véritable
Que lou pichot innoucènt
Es na dins un estable
Qu’es auprès de Betelèn.
Lou mèstre
Que lou Fiéu de Diéu sie na ?
Pèr lou crèire,
Lou fau vèire ;
Iéu pode pas me l’imagina. | | The sheperd
It’s greatly true
That the little innocent
Was born in a cowshed
Near Bethlehem.
The master
That God’s Son was born?
To believe this,
One has to see that;
Me, I can’t imagine. |
6th verse |
Lou pastre
Veici mei camarado
Que me vènon averti
Que la luno es levado,
Que toutaro fau parti.
Lou mèstre
Anaren dounc tous ensèn :
La coumpagno,
En campagno,
Vounte qu’anen fai toujour grand bèn. | | The sheperd
Here are my friends
Coming to inform
Of the moonrise,
In a short while we have to leave.
The master
So we will go all together:
The company,
In countryside,
Where we go, always does good. |
1. I.e. the shepherds come here to see me before leaving me.
2. Chourlo, servant aid; young boy that ties up the sheaves and pours the harvesters a drink.
| Bibliography | | • | Saboly (Nicolas), Lei noé de San Pierre (Christmas carols of Saint Peter), Pierre Offray printer, Avignon, 1669, p. 7-9. | | • | Recueil des noëls composés en langue provençale (Collection of Christmas carols composed in Provençal language), reprint Fr. Seguin, printer and bookseller, Avignon, 1856, p. 21. | | • | 2e recueil de noëls provençaux par l’abbé P. C., édition M. Carbonel, Marseille, 1863, p. 30-31. |
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