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Cansoun dòu festin d'Utella  
(Song of Utelle's feast)
Nissart lyrics by Faraut (Utelle). Traditional from County of Nice.
| 1st verse |
L’autre jour èri souta d’un mèle
Cour’ an passat doui pichin passeroun
En mi diguènt que lou festin d’Utella
Auria besoun d’una bella cansoun. (twice) | | Some other day, I was under a larch
When passed two small passerines
Telling me that Utelle's feast
Would need a beautiful song. (twice) |
2nd verse |
Mi sèmbla bèn que la nouostra jouventura
Sigue pilhada dòu filosserà.
Ma qu’au festin noun bèuguès d’aiga pura
E qu n’en vòu que si vague negà. (twice) | | It seems to me that our youth
Is taken by the phylloxera.
But at the feast don’t drink pure water,
And who wants it, let he go and drown. (twice) |
3rd verse |
Lou quinz’aoust, en là vers li tre oura,
Revilherèn lu nouostre musicien.
Se veguessian quauca pichouna nèbla,
Pourrian pregà que n’en plòugue de vin ! (twice) | | The fifteenth of August, over there near three o'clock,
We will awake our musicians.
If we see some little cloud,
We should pray that come wine from it! (twice) |
4th verse |
S’anas au bal, menà-vous ’na careta,
Perqué, de fès, pourriàs trovà ’n coulis
Que de luèn vous sembla de pouleta
Ma que de proch : una bala de ris. (twice) | | If you go dancing, bring us a cart,
Because, sometimes, you would find a parcel
Which, from a distance, seems [to be] pullets,
But which, closer, [is] a chaff of rice. (twice) |
| Bibliography | | • | Delrieu (Georges), Anthologie de la chanson niçoise (Anthology of the Song from Nice), Nice, publisher Delrieu & Co, 1960, p. 127. | | • | 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. 67. |
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