Progressive folk in all senses
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...