MARION /LO GIBÓS /LO BOSSUT (Occitan) Marion jos un pomiò Que se pimpolhava Que se pimpolhava d'aicí, Que se pimpolhava d'ailà, Que se pimpolhava. Un gibós ven a passar Que l'agachava "Marion se o voliás Seriás ma mestressa" "Gibós per que siague aital Cal copar la giba" Un còp la giba copada Lo gibós plorava

MARION /THE HUNCHBACK / THE HUMPBACK Marion, under an appletree Was dolling herself up Was dolling herself up here, Was dolling herself up there Was dolling herself up. A hunchback happened to pass by Who was looking at her "Marion, if you wanted to, You'd be my mistress" "Hunchback, for it to be so, You have to cut your hump" Once the hump was cut, The hunchback was crying.

This song can be found in many places in different versions. The girl's called Marion (pet name for Mary, now a name of its own), sometimes Margoton (diminutive of Margot, pet name for Marguerite). In all the versions the hunchback deeply regrets to have cut his hump (probably because she didn't want him as a boyfriend even without his hump!)

Savoy version
Lengadòc version

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