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Monique Lyr Req: Breizh songs (10) RE: Lyr Req: Breizh songs 23 Apr 16


French translation translated into "my" English, feel free to improve it.

I'm a young man –though I'm not courteous
I can write and read, earn gold and silver,
And I will reveal you (something) before the end of my talk/speech:
Whoever chooses a mistress sleeps neither by night nor by day.

Me, I've chosen one who is more beautiful than the moon,
Brighter than the sun when it raises upon the earth,
Brighter than the sun when it raises upon the world;
She'll break my heart if she doesn't give me a remedy.

Me, I have two mistresses like two roses,
One of them is red, the other is white;
The white one is in the South garden:
I fear that she wither when the hard season comes.

The red one is a pretty and beautiful girl
Who abducted me with her charming looks.
When everybody in the world assured me
She was a coquette, I couldn't believe it.

But now, I believe it, because I made the clear experience;
Farewell, my love! Farewell, my hope!

I have a warbler whose two wings were trimmed,
It comes every night, every night, on the corner of my mantelpiece;
There's no time of the night when I don't hear it sing,
My mistress' little heart is like this warbler.

The other day, at ten at night, as I was in my bed,
Having already slept a nap, I had a dream,
Having already slept a nap, I had a dream,
(I dreamed) that my most beloved was by my side.

Alas! When I woke up, seeing that she wasn't there,
I burst out crying like a lost lamb;
I burst out crying like a little lamb
That's been let loose among the gorse (and that was)
Abandoned by its mother.

I still go once to my mistress' house,
Even if my efforts were in vain, I did it very often
Even if my efforts were in vain, very often I did it.
Everybody tells me I'm wasting my time.

According to what you'll say, I'll go to study
And never ever will I go back home,
According to what you'll say, I'll go to study
And never ever will I go back home.

Do go, my servant, go still to study,
A little year or two, or at the very least three,
Till I've turned my twenty-fifth birthday,
Then I'll marry you without my parents' permission.


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