L'AUTRE JOUR EN ME PROMENANT
(Occitan -Lengadocian dialec- and French
L'autre jour en me promenant (1)
Ò lanlà lalirà tot lo long d'una sèga
Ne'n rancontrèri un niuc d'ausèl
Que ressemblav' la trida
Io ne'n levèi lo mèi galhard
Lo portèri a ma miga
- Tenètz miga, aquí un ausèl
Metètz-lo en gabinhòla
En gabinhòla lo metèt
Sèt ans tres jorns i demorèt
Sans manger ni sans boire (1)
Al bot d'aquels sèt ans tres jorns
L'ausèl pren la volèia
Se'n vai pausar sul boisson blanc
Per minjar d'aussanèlas
- Tòrna tòrna petit ausèl
Tòrna en gabinhòla
Te donarèi de mon pan blanc
E dels choux à la crèma (2)
Te menarèi al riu corent
Per beure d'aiga clèra | THE OTHER DAY AS I WAS STROLLING
The other day as I was strolling
Ò lanlà lalirà along a hedge.
I found a nest
That look like the one of a thrush.
I took the strongest (fledging) from the nest
I took it to my sweetheart.
"Here you are, sweetheart, here's a bird,
Put it in a cage."
She put it in a cage
Seven years and three days it stayed there
Without eating or drinking.
At the end of these seven years and three days
The bird took its flight.
It goes to sit on the hawthorn
To eat some haws.
"Come back, come back, little bird,
Come back in the cage.
I'll give you some of my white bread
And profiteroles.
I'll take you to the stream
To drink clear water." |