LA BAERCA DE VENT

 

Fiola, la Baerca

De vent la và

Fiola, la Baerca

La traversa tot e maer.

 

Pisein ad lousa

Avnei sò

Pisein d’ombra

Stasei se fond.

 

Fiola, questa

L’è la Baerca de vent

L’arivarà dagli ondi da spavent

L’arivarà dagli undeini da reid.

 

Arivarèm a tèra…

La Baerca de vent lal sà:

Las porta a cà.

 

Fiola, la Baerca

La traversa tot e maer

Fiola, la Baerca

De vent la và

 

Arivarèm a tèra

La Baerca de vent lal sà:

Las porta a cà.

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FIRE DOWN BELOW

 

She was the parson’s daughter 
With the red and rosy cheeks
Way-hey-he-hi-ho
She went to church on Sunday
And sang the anthem sweet
There’s fire down below
The parson was a misery 
So scraggy and so thin
Way-hey-he-hi-ho
Look here you mother fuckers
If you lead a life of sin
There’s fire down below

He took his text from malaky
And pulled a wary face
Way-hey-he-hi-ho
Well I fucked off for Africa
And there I fell from grace
There’s fire down below
The parson’s little daughter 
Was as sweet as sugar candy
Way-hey-he-hi-ho
I said to her
Us sailors would make lovers neat and handy
There’s fire down below

She says to me 
You sailors are a bunch of fucking liars
Way-hey-he-hi-ho
All of you are bound to hell
To feed the fucking fires
There’s fire down below
There’s fire down below my lads
And we must do what we ought to
Way-hey-he-hi-ho
Cause the fire is not half as hot
As the parsons little daughter

There’s fire down below
There’s fire down below
There’s fire down below
There’s fire down below
There’s fire down below

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ROI BLANC

 

O l’Omega, Rayon Violet de ses Yeux !

 

A, noir corset velu de mouches éclatantes

Qui bombinent autour des puanteurs cruelles,

Golfes d’ombre

 

O, l’Omega, Rayon Violet de ses Yeux !

 

E, Candeurs des vapeurs et des tentes,

Lances des glaciers fiers, Rois Blancs, frissons d’ombelles

Roi Blanc, Frisson d’Ombelle

 

O, l’Omega, Rayon Violet de ses Yeux !

 

I, pourpres, sang craché, rire des lèvres belles

Dans la colère ou les ivresses pénitentes

Pénitentes

 

U, cycles, vibrements divins des mers virides,

Paix des pâtis semés d’animaux, paix des rides

Que l’alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux

 

O, l’Omega, Rayon Violet de ses Yeux!

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ONDA TONDA

 

Onda Tonda, onda Tonda

Onda Tonda, onda Tèra

Onda che sposta

Novli ad stèli

 

Un Aelbar dè dop dè

L’instèca al su radghi tla tèra…

Acsè par mè

L’è Mount di Teff

E parchè a ne sò…

 

A sem tôt un po’ cmè un aelbar.

Mount di Teff par mè

L’è Silenzi, Aqua cla và

Onda Tonda

Onda Tonda”

 

L’è Fugh, tèra scoura

 

L’è camine piaen

L’è i Pansir

Che im tneva cumpagnia

 

Quand a sera burdèl

 

Onda Tonda, onda Tonda

Onda Tonda, onda Tèra

Onda che sposta

Novli ad Stèli

 

Un Aelbar dè dop dè

L’instèca al su radghi tla tèra…

A sèm tôt cmè un Aelbaer

Silenzi Aqua Onda Tonda

Fugh Tèra

Vent Doulz che Sposta

Novli ad Stèli.

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L'ECOLIER ASSASSIN

 

d’ou reviens-tu mon fils jacques
d’où reviens-tu cette nuit ?
je viens des écoles ma mère
des écoles de paris

j’entends la chanson sereine
du rossignolet joli

tu as menti là mon drôle
tu reviens de voir ta mie
je voudrais la voir morte
et avoir son coeur ici

que donneriez-vous ma mère
si je la faisais mourir ?
je donnerais chemise blanche
de l’argent à ton plaisir

il est allé voir sa belle
sitôt le soleil levé
en arrivant à sa porte
l’entendit minuit sonner

il la prend par sa main blanche
au jardin l’a emmenée
il a pris sa claire épée
le p’tit doigt lui a coupé

ah mon dieu que de souffrances
que j’endure cette nuit
tu en souffriras bien d’autres
avant qu’ la nuit soit finie

il la couche sur l’épine
oh qui graine sans fleurir
lui a pris le coeur du ventre
dans sa chemise il l’a mis

tenez ma cruelle mère
voilà le coeur de ma mie
tu as menti par ta bouche
c’est le coeur d’une brebis

oh montagnes sur montagnes
écrasez-vous sur mon corps
j'ai fait mourir ma maîtresse
je n’mérite que la mort

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CLUCK OLD HEN

 

My old hen's a good old hen

She lays eggs for the railroad men

Sometimes 8 and sometimes ten

That's enough for the railroad men

 

Cluck old hen cluck and sing

You ain't laid an egg since late last spring

Cluck old hen cluck and squall

Ain't laid an egg since late last fall

 

Cluck old hen cluck when I tell you

Cluck old hen or I’m gonna sell you

Last ti me she cackled cackled in the lot

Next time she cackles cackle in the pot

 

My old hen she's a good old hen

She lays eggs for the railroad men

Sometimes 1 sometimes 2

Sometimes enough for the whole damn crew

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WISHLIST

 

I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off. 
I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on. 
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on 
The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top, 
I wish I was the evidence
I wish I was the sun for fifty million hands upraised, and opened toward the sky.

I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me. 
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me. 
I wish I was a messenger, and all the news was good. 
I wish I was the full moon shining off a camaro's hood. 

I wish I was an alien, at home behind the sun, 
I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on. 
I wish I was the pedal break that you depended on. 
I wish I was the verb "to trust", and never let you down.

I wish I was a radio song, the one that you could turned up, 
I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, 
I guess it never stops.

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WEILE WAILE

 

There was an old woman and she lived in the woods

Weile weile waile

There was an old woman and she lived in the woods

Down by the river Saile

 She had a baby three months old...

 She had a pen-knife long and sharp...

 She stuck the pen-knife in the baby head...

 Three policemen and a bobby came knocking at the door...

 They pulled the rope and she was hung...

 And that was the end of the woman in the woods

and that was the end of the baby too...  

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