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La Margarideta  
(The Daisy)
Traditional song from County of Nice.
| 1st verse |
Lou plan vert
Es cubert
De paisan, cadun travailla.
Fan de fai,
O de tai ;
Lou gal canta, l’ae raia. | | The green floor
Is covered
Of peasants, everybody works.
They does bundles of sticks,
Or notches;
The cock sings, the donkey brays. |
2nd verse |
Can e cat
Soun courcat
À l’oumbra su l’erba mouola.
Ben redoun
Coum’ un poum,
Tounin juga, si bressoula. | | Cat and dog
Are laying
In the shade on the soft grass.
Well round
As an apple,
Antonine is playing, he swings. |
3rd verse |
Una niéu
Dòu bouon Dieu
Soubre dai paisan s’arresta.
E plan-plan,
En lou plan,
L’aiga bagna qauqui vesta. | | A cloud
Of the good Lord
On the peasants stops.
And slowly,
On the floor,
The water makes wet some jackets. |
4th verse |
Trouna, plou
Couma fàu.
Can e cat, Miquèu, la frema
Couroun toui
À maioun
E vitou cadun s’estrema. | | It’s thundering, it’s raining
As it does.
Dod and cat, Michael, the woman,
All are running
To home
And quickly everyone shuts himself. |
5th verse |
À maioun,
Marioun,
Bouona maire de familha,
Pia alena,
Fieu, ciseu,
Mette un pounch à la camilha. | | At home,
Mary,
Good housewife,
Takes needle,
Thread, scissors,
Mends the shirt. |
6th verse |
Felissoun,
Redrissoun,
De la siéu coulougna tira
Lu civus
E lou fus
Mounta, cala, vira, vira... | | Felicie,
[Woman] tidy,
With her distaff pulls
The hair (1)
And the spindle
Goes up, and down, turns, turns... |
7th verse |
Noun es ren.
« Laisseren,
Di Miquèu, passa la raissa. »
Lou paisan
Fuma en tan
Una pipa. Ma ramaissa. | | It’s nothing.
“We will leave,
Says Michael, the shower pass.”
The peasant
Smokes, while waiting,
A pipe. But the rain stops. |
8th verse |
Un bel arc,
Clar e larc,
Sus de mount Gros si desplega.
Lou rigau
Dòu siéu trau
Parte, vola, redoublega. | | A beautifull rainbow,
Clear and large,
On the Mount Gros unfurls.
The robin
From its hole
Leaves, flies, warbles. |
9th verse |
Va, pitan
E sautant.
D’estouireta s’esperleca
Bouon, e di :
Que plesi !
Es a doui pas d’una leca. | | It goes, eating
And hopping.
Of earwigs it licks its lips
Well, and says:
What a pleasure!
It is just at a stone’s throw from a trap. |
10th verse |
Un bouon vent
Dòu pounent
Souffla e casca un pàu li fuèia.
Lou souleu
Surbe lèu (2)
Aqueli gouta de pluèia. | | A good wind
From west (3)
Blows and shakes a bit the leaves.
The sun
Quickly absorbs
These drops of rain. |
11th verse |
Lu siéu rai
Dous e gai
Caressoun li margarida,
E dai brout,
À degout,
L’aiga toumba coulourida. | | Its rays
Soft and cheerful
Stroke the daisies,
And from shoots,
Drop after drop,
The water falls, colored. |
12th verse |
Que splendour !
Sus li flour,
Parpaioun, tavan, abèia
Venoun mai.
Au travai
Retournas, garçoun e filha ! | | What a splendour!
On the flowers,
Butterflies, cockchafers, bees
Come again.
At work
Go back, boys and girls! |
1. Coming from shearing of the sheep.
2. Lou souleu | Surbe lèu...: the review Nice historique (cf. infra, Bibliography) has published here Lou souleu | Suorte, bèu... (The sun | Goes out, drinks...).
3. Pounent: the sunset side.
| Bibliography | | • | 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. 160. | | • | revue Nice historique, Nice, n° 2-3, 1914, p. 284-285. |
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