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La Pièusouleta  
(The Lady)
Traditional Christmas carol from Villefranche-sur-Mer, County of Nice, collected by the canon Henri Carol.
| 1st verse |
La pièusouleta bella n’agut un enfant (twice)
Que toui lu rei dòu mounde l’adoureran. (twice) | | The beautiful virgin got a child (twice)
All kings of the world will worship. (twice) |
2nd verse |
Touta la vesinansa a fà lou pan (twice)
Per fà li batejàia d’aquel enfant. (twice) | | The whole neighbourhood made the bread (twice)
To make the (1) dinner of baptism for this child. (twice) |
3rd verse |
Aià n’en ven ’na frema m’un cavagnòu (twice)
Me tre quartié de tourta e doui, tre òu. (twice) | | Over there is coming a woman with a basket (twice)
With three quarters of pie and two, three eggs. (twice) |
4th verse |
Aià n’en ven un’ autre per lou valoun. (twice)
Ella, s’es acipada en un bouissoun. (twice) | | Over there is coming an other by the small valley. (twice)
She, she stumbled over a bush. (twice) |
5th verse |
Una s’es embranchada ’n’un rouméguié (twice)
Per s’assegre mai autre qu’èron premié. (twice) | | An other hanged on to a bramble bush (twice)
To follow close to [the] other who were first. (twice) |
6th verse |
Una d’aquesti frema va s’apressà (twice)
De l’Enfant de Maria per lou faissà. (twice) | | One among these women is going to approach (twice)
The son of Mary to wrap him. (twice) |
7th verse |
La Vierge li respouonde que soun enfant (twice)
Noun recéurà de faissa que dai siéu man. (twice) | | The Virgin answer her that her child (twice)
Will receive swaddling clothes only by her [own] hands. (twice) |
8th verse |
Aquesta paura frema, d’aqueu refut (twice)
N’en resta touta nèca e noun di rèn. (twice) | | This poor woman, by this refusal (twice)
Rankles stunned and says nothing. (twice) |
1. Li batejàia is feminine plural in nissart.
| Bibliography | | • | Delrieu (Georges), Anthologie de la chanson niçoise (Anthology of the Song from Nice), Nice, publisher Delrieu & Co, 1960, p. 244. | | • | 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. 224. |
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