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Lou Brandi dòu vilage
(The Brandi of the Village)
Nissart lyrics by Eugène Emanuel. Traditional from County of Nice.
| 1st verse |
La canson qu’àu mes de Maï
Canton en lo mièu vilage
Es un brandi triste e gaï
Que d’amour n’en ten lengage. | | The song during month of May
They sing in my village
Is a sorrowful and cheerful brandi
That, of love, is the language. |
2nd verse |
Parla dòu bosquet en flou,
Dòu ciel blu, de la verdura,
Dòu rossignou, dei bei jou,
Dòu reveil de la natura. | | It speaks about bosket in blossom,
Blue sky, vegetation (1),
Nightingale, beautiful days,
And nature reawakening. |
3rd verse |
Parla dòu mont e dòu plan,
Dòu pastre, dòu roc sàuvage,
Dòu soulèu, qu’en si couchan
Pinta, endàura lo nuage. | | It speaks about mountain and plain,
Shepherd, wild rock,
Sun that, while setting,
Paints, turns the cloud gold. |
4th verse |
Éu deplora lo destin
De qu, luen de la patria,
Non partagia lu destin,
Li joïa de la familla. | | It, it laments fate
Of who, away from homeland,
Doesn’t share the destinies,
The joys of the family. |
5th verse |
Éu la plainte vou redi
De la bella delaïssada
Que àu Maï non vé plus veni
La persona tan aïmada. | | It, the complaint it says again
From the abandoned belle
That, at May, doesn’t see anymore come
The so beloved person. |
6th verse |
Su lu debris dòu manoir
Que domina la collina,
Di que si vé, toui lu soir,
Un fantome que camina. | | On remains of the mansion
Which overlooks the hill,
It says that it’s seen, every evening,
A ghost (2) wending. |
7th verse |
De l’abile menestrié
Repèta l’air lo plus tendre,
Que souta dei castagnié
Au bal nen ven faïre entendre. | | From the skilful fiddler
Its repeats the tenderest tune,
Which, beneath the chestnut trees,
At the (open-air) dance it comes to make us hear. |
8th verse |
Canta lu juec dei païsan,
Lo travail de la journada,
L’espoir de quor semenan,
Lu frui de la buona annada ! | | It sings plays of the peasants,
The labour of the day’s work,
The hope [that in] hearts we sow,
The fruits of the good year! |
9th verse |
Tamben, quora l’àubre en flou,
Lo ciel blu e la verdura
M’annonçon qu’emb’ai bei jou
Va revièure la natura, | | So, when the tree in blossom,
The blue sky and the vegetation
Announce me that with beautiful days
Nature is going to be revived |
10th verse |
Iéu festi lo mes de Maï
En retournan àu vilage,
E dòu brandi triste e gaï
Vàu entendre lo lengage ! | | I, I celebrate month of May
By going back to the village,
And, of the sorrowful and cheerful brandi,
I go to listen langage! |
1. Verdura: in the literal, designates parsley. Here, understand grass and green foliage, i.e. vegetation.
2. May be the ghost Pellegrin?
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