El barranc de l’assut

Cançó popular valenciana / Valencian folk song

 

I a ta mare l’han vista

en el barranc de l’assut,

que es menjava una coca

que li xorrava suc.

Que li xorrava suc,

que li xorrava suc,

i a ta mare l’han vista

en el barranc de l’assut.

Some people have seen your mother

in the ravine of the weir,

and she was eating a flat cake

that was dripping sauce.

That was dripping sauce,

that was dripping sauce,

some people have seen your mother

in the ravine of the weir.

 

Ma mare m’envia a l’horta

a regar el melonar.

Jo em pegue una revolta

i me’n vaig a festejar.

My mother sends me away to the floodplain

to water the melon field.

I go for a walk

and… to court. 

 

Tornada: I a ta mare l’han vista…

Chorus: Some people have seen your mother…

 

 

Les xiques del carrer nou,

totes, miren a la lluna

per a fer-se l’aixovar

i no se’n casa ninguna.

The young women of the new street

are looking at the moon

to prepare them their dowries

but none of them get married.

 

Tornada: I a ta mare l’han vista…

Chorus: Some people have seen your mother…

 

En ma vida m’he rist més

que una nit collint tomaques:

em vaig girar i vaig vore

una gallina amb sabates.

I’ve never died of laughter so much in my life

as one night while I was harvesting tomatoes:

I turned round and I saw

a hen with shoes.

 

Tornada: I a ta mare l’han vista…

Chorus: Some people have seen your mother…

 

 

Font: Podeu escoltar el vídeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmUJAokbgfU, amb la música del grup Carraixet.