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Monique Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English (350* d) RE: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English 15 May 23


L'AUCÈU EN GABIÒLA (Occitan)

Aicí ne'n ven tres aucelets (x2)
Sus un brancon d'oliva, vòla. (x2)

N'i a dos que cantan lo plaser (x2)
E l'autre lei saluda, vòla. (x2)

Aqueu que lei saluda tots (x2)
Lo fau portar a ma mia, vòla. (x2)

Ah! Tenètz, mia, un aucelet (x2)
Metètz-lo en gabiòla, vòla (x2)

Fasètz-l'i lo restar sèt ans (x2)
Sensa manjar ni beure, vòla (x2).

Quand lei sèt ans ne'n son passats (x2)
Lo rossinhòu s'envòla, vòla. (x2)

La dama li corre a l'après (x2)
Coma una frema fòla, vòla. (x2)

Arrèsta, arrèsta, rossinhòu, (x2)
Retòrna en gabiòla, vòla (x2)

Te farai manjar de pan blanc (x2)
Te darai de mon beure, vòla. (x2)

N'en vòle ges de ton pan blanc (x2)
E ni mai de ton beure, vòla. (x2)

Ieu manjarai d'erba de camp (x2)
De la pas caucigada, vòla (x2)

Ieu beurai d'aiga dau rocàs (x2)
De la pas trebolada, vòla (x2)

Ieu cantarai a mon plaser (x2)
Coma mei camaradas, vòla (x2)

Ame mai estre aucèu de camp, (x2)
Qu'un aucèu de gabiòla, vòla. (x2)
THE BIRD IN A CAGE

Here come three little birds (x2)
On a little branch of an olive tree, fly (x2)

There are two singing the pleasure (x2)
And the other one greets them, fly (x2)

The one that greets them all, (x2)
I have it brought to my sweetheart, fly (x2)

Ah, here you go, sweetheart, a little bird, (x2)
Put it in a cage, fly (x2)

Have it stay there for seven years, (x2)
Without food nor drink, fly (x2)

When the seven years are over, (x2)
The nightingale flies away, fly (x2)

The lady runs after it, (x2)
Like a crazy woman, fly (x2)

Stop, stop, nightingale, (x2)
Go back into the cage, fly (x2)

I'll give you white bread to eat (x2),
I'll give you some of my drink, fly (x2)

I don't want any of your white bread (x2)
Nor of your drink, fly (x2)

I'll eat field grass (x2)
The one that is not trodden, fly (x2)

I'll drink rock water (x2)
The one that is not clouded, fly (x2)

I'll sing at my leasure (x2)
Like my fellows, fly (x2)

I like better be a field bird (x2)
Than a bird in a cage, fly (x2)
Recording by MacCann duet concertina G. Carrère


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