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Thread #121083 Message #3496026
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
28-Mar-13 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: ADD: french folk song about Normandy-Ma Normandie
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: french folk song about Normandy
Looks like it's the last verse that's missing from gnomad's English translation: it's not all a direct translation anyway: the French version is about the swallows returning (presumably after the winter)and doesn't mention either the dawn or the morn!
Below, my rather literal translation of verse 3: it needs to tweaked a bit to make it scan better, and perhaps re-phrased a bit too!
It is a time in your life When every dream must finish, A period when the soul, collected in, Has need to remember, When my cooled muse Has finished its songs of love I will see again my Normandy, It is the country where I was born