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La Pastoura (The Shepherdess) Nissart lyrics and music by Louis Genari. Traditional from County of Nice.
1st 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. |
2nd 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.” |
3rd 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.” |
4th 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.” |
5th 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 & Co, 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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