lyrics La Pastoura (The Shepherdess) - Traditional song from County of Nice

D’argent à une aigle de gueules, au vol abaissé, membrée, becquée et couronnée d’or, empiétant une montagne de trois coupeaux de sable issant d’une mer d’azur mouvant de la pointe et ondée d’argent.


	Traditional music from County of Nice (France)


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La Pastoura
(The Shepherdess)
Nissart lyrics and music by Louis Genari. Traditional from County of Nice.

1^st verse
Barounant a la maloura Vau per rara e per camin. Couma’s bella la pastoura Rescountrada de matin.		Roaming in poverty, I go by paths and lanes. How pretty she was, the shepherdess Met in the morning.
Chorus
Tra la la la la la la tra deri dera Tra deri dera la la la la tra deri dera. Vau denant sensa retour Que noun ai oustau ni amour.		Tra la la la la la la tra deri dera Tra deri dera la la la la tra deri dera. I go [straight] on without return Because I’ve neither home nor love.
2^nd verse
Siéu partit noun sabi quoura E m’impouorta pau la fin. « La siéu bouca es un’amoura Tra doui gauta de carmin. »		I leaved I don’t know when And I don’t care the end. “Her mouth is a blackberry Between two cheeks of carmine.”
3^rd verse
En un luec degun mi ploura E iéu noun ai de chacrin. « D’un regard que s’enamoura M’a plagnut iéu tant mesquin. »		Nowhere nobody mourns for me And me, I’ve no sorrow. “By a glance which becomes enamoured She felt sorry for me, me so petty.”
4^th verse
La miéu set ai fouont s’amoura, Ai pan negre per festin. « M’au bouon lach de Valdebloura S’en venia au siéu casin. »		My thirst at fountains quenches, I’ve stale bread as a feast. “With the good milk from Valdeblore ⁽¹⁾ She came home.”
5^th verse
Jà fumavon de bouon’oura Lu vièi téule lauvanié. « Touet e frema que l’ounoura Noun soun rèn dòu miéu destin. »		Already smoked early [in the afternoon] The old slate tiles. “Roof ⁽²⁾ and wife who does credit to it Are nothing in my destiny.”

1. Located in North of County of Nice, between Valley of Tinée and Valley of Vésubie.
2. Touet: steep place, eyrie. See also Nouvé dòu pastre.

Bibliography
•	Delrieu (Georges), Anthologie de la chanson niçoise (Anthology of the Song from Nice), Nice, publisher Delrieu & C^o, 1960, p. 48-49.
•	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. 212.

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