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La Niçarda
(The Girl of Nice)
Nissart lyrics by Jules Eynaudi, known as Juli Eynaudi.
Dedication “To Mr Prosper Visconti”.
| 1st verse |
Doun es aquela doumaïsela
Portant la toileta tant ben,
Mé la figura fresca, bela
Pi d’adourable pichoui pen;
La taia tant ben fuselada
Per fa ressourti lu countour?
Couor mascle, batès la chamada
S’avesinès parrier amour. | | Where is this young lady
Wearing clothes just as well,
With her fresh face, good-looking
And sweet small feet;
Waist tapered just as well
To make outlines standing out?
Male hearts, beat the chamada (1)
If you are placed side by side with such a love. |
Chorus |
Es la Niçarda;
Qu la regarda
Mé passioun n’en deven amourous.
O calegnaire,
Avès bèu faire,
La Niçarda v’aurà pèr espous. | | It’s the girl of Nice;
Who is looking at her
Passionately falls in love.
Oh lovers,
Would you do,
The girl of Nice will get you as husband. |
2nd verse |
Doun es aquela brava fiha,
Que va travaià tout un an,
Raportant à la siéu famiha
De beli peça de vint franc?
Aco farà marchà la barca.
La pàura si garderà ren;
La modestia si remarca
Su d’aquela fiha de ben. | | Where is this nice girl,
Who is going to work all the year long,
Bringing back to her family
Beautiful twenty francs coins?
That will make the boat go.
The belle will not keep nothing for her;
Modesty is noticeable
On this girl of good. |
3rd verse |
Pouden fà lou tour de la Terra
Pèr travail o pèr agremen,
Pèr ribotà, pèr fà la guerra,
Après quoura s’en revenen:
Proclameren qu’en tout lou mounde
Una frema basta nen plas,
Una qu’en lou siéu couor escounde
Joia, bouonur, amour e paz. | | We can go round the Earth
For work or for amenity,
To carouse, to wage war,
After, when we come back:
We will proclaim that in the whole world
Only a woman suits us,
One who in her heart hides
Joy, happiness, love and peace. |
4th verse |
Doun es aquela frema brava
Que dintre de la siéu maïoun
Baila, pressa, courdura, lava
Pèr espargnà lou picaïoun;
Que souven farà de miracle
Pèr gouvernà pichoui me gran,
Dounan jamaï coum’ spectacle
De brut esemple ai siéu enfan? | | Where is this nice woman
Who, in her home,
Brings up an infant, presses, sews, washes
To save cash;
Who often will make miracles
To feed the young and the not-so-young,
Never giving as a sight
Bad example to her children? |
Last chorus |
Siès tu, Niçarda;
Qu ti regarda,
De la siéu vida t’aimera toujou.
Vertu celesta,
Ti faguen festa,
Tant que vieuras, passeren de bei jou. | | It’s you, girl of Nice;
Who is looking at you
In his life will always love you.
Celestial virtue,
We give you a warm welcome,
As long as you will live, we will spend good times. |
1. Chamada: formerly, the name of a drum roll or bugle call announcing the intention of a besieged city to surrender. Nowadays, means: the heart is beating wildly.
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