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Dučrme, bču bambin  
(Sleep, beautiful little kid) (Sleep, pretty small child)
Traditional cradlesong from County of Nice, collected by J.C. Ranucci and A. Tosan.
This traditional lullaby refers to typical features of Christmas carols: the ox and the donkey warming up the small child, the offering of gifts and the poverty of the worshipper, and the future and accepted Christ’s suffering Soufrissčs perque voulčs (You suffer because you want).
| 1st verse |
Dučrme, bču bambin,
Fai la nouneta.
Dučrme, bču bambin, bin, bin,
Que lou bòu e la saumeta
Venon rescaufŕ lou bču bambin
Que teta.
Soufrissčs perque voulčs.
Dučrme, bču bambin, durmčs. | | Sleep, beautiful little kid,
Come on, sleepy-time!
Sleep, beautiful little kid, kid, kid,
Let the ox and the ass’s foal
Come and warm up the pretty small child
Sucking.
You suffer because you want [that].
Sleep, beautiful little kid, let sleep. |
2nd verse |
Que li pouorterai,
Iéu que siéu paura ?
Que li pouorterai, qu’ai ren ?
Iéu que per manjŕ, iéu cau que lauri,
Que li pouorterai en aquču
Bču bambin ?
Li canterai ’na cansoun
Per faire durmì lou pichoun. | | What will I bring,
As I am poor?
What will I bring, I’ve nothing?
As, to eat, I’ve to dig,
What will I bring to this
Pretty small child?
I’ll sing a song
To make the little kid sleep. |
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