Water from the spring | The water from the spring will kill you, child!

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

L'aïo dè rotso

Language: Occitan

Our translations: ENG

L'aïo dè rotso té foro mourir, filhoto!
Nè té cal pas bèïr' oquèl',  aïo, quèl' aïo,
Mès cal prèndr'un couot d'oquèl' aïo dè bi!
S'uno filhoto sè bouol morida, pitchouno,
Li cal pas douna d'oquèl' aïo dè rotso,
Aïmaro miliour oquèl' aïo dè bi!

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Joseph Canteloube (1879 - 1957), "L'aïo dè rotso", subtitle: "Bourée recueillie en Haute-Auverge, aux environs du Pay Violent à Collandres (Cantal)" [ voice and piano ], from Chants d'auvergne I, no. 3a, Trois bourrés no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Water from the spring", subtitle: "Bourée collected in the Haute-Auverge, in the environs of Pay Violent à Collandres, in the department of Cantal", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 44

Water from the spring

Language: English after the Occitan

The water from the spring will kill you, child!
Don’t drink that water, that water,
But instead of water drink some wine!
If a girl marries, my dear,
She shouldn't have water from the spring,
She’ll [make] love better after a drink of wine!

Subtitle: "Bourée collected in the Haute-Auverge, in the environs of Pay Violent à Collandres, in the department of Cantal"

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Based on:

a text in Occitan from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-20
Line count: 6
Word count: 44