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Monique ADD: Grey Selkie in French (2) RE: Grey Selkie in French 09 Sep 25


Tri Yann recording
Lyrics. Translation by Google Translate with a very few changes by me)
LE DAUPHIN

Sur la lande déserte, une femme fredonne
Pour son enfant et pour elle aussi :
Je connais ton père, petit bonhomme
Il vit très loin, très loin d'ici ...

Un soir de tempête il est entré
Mon Dieu la tête qu'il avait
Il dit, s'asseyant sur le lit :
C'est moi le père du petit

Je suis un homme sur la terre
Je suis un dauphin dans la mer
Je vis très loin, très loin d'ici
Dans le courant du Sule Skerry

Jetant sur la table une bourse d'or
Il dit : voilà pour ton effort
Quant au petit, dès aujourd'hui
Il faut te séparer de lui

Je viendrai le prendre un soir à la brune
Quand le ciel s'accroche aux filets meurtris
Et lui apprendrai à prendre l'écume
Comme mon père me l'avait appris

Un marin pêcheur tu épouseras
Des harponneurs le plus adroit
Et le premier coup qu'il décochera
Tuera mon fils, mon fils et moi

Sur la lande déserte, une femme fredonne
Pour son enfant et pour elle aussi :
Je connais ton père, petit bonhomme
Il vit très loin, très loin d'ici ...
THE DOLPHIN (Translation by Google Translate with a very few changes by me)

On the deserted moor, a woman hums
For her child and for herself too:
I know your father, little man
He lives very far, very far from here...

One stormy evening he came in
My God, what a face he had!
He said, sitting down on the bed:
I am the father of the little one

I am a man on earth
I am a dolphin in the sea
I live very far, very far from here
In the current of the Sule Skerry

Throwing a purse of gold on the table
He said: this is for your effort
As for the little one, from today
You must separate from him

I will come and take him one evening at dusk
When the sky clings to the damaged nets
And teach him to catch the foam
As my father taught me

You will marry a fisherman
The most skillful of harpooneers
And the first shot he shoots
Will kill my son, my son and me

On the deserted moor, a woman hums
For her child and for herself too:
I know your father, little man
He lives very far away, very far from here


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