Lyrics and translation Luar Na Lubre - Dona Alda

Dona Alda

Romance tradicional recollido no Cancioneiro de Casto Sampedro y Folgar ao cal lle engadimos a nosa música e arranxos.

A cazar saiu Don Pedro
A cazar como solía, ai!
Os cans xa levaba cansos
Don Pedro máis canso ía, ai!

Chegou ao medio da serra
Para a casa se volvía
Chegou á porta da casa
Esmorrente se caía

-Fágam'a cama, mi madre
Fágam'a cama mi vida,
Que vou para a vida eterna
Que vou para a eterna vida

- Non digas, iso meu fillo
Que está Dona alda parida
-Non digan nada a Dona Alda
Hastra dún ano e un día

Os días foron pasados
Dona Alda nada sabía
Compriras coarentena
Día de pascoa florida

Dona Alda

Traditional romance collected in the Cancioneiro de Casto Sampedro y Folgar to which we added our own music and arrangements.

Don Pedro went hunting
As he used to do, ah!
His dogs were tired
And Don Pedro even more so, ah!

He reached the middle of the mountains
And turned around towards home
He reached the door of his house
And fell down unconscious

-Make me a bed, my mother
Make me a bed, my darling,
For I am going to eternal life
I am going to eternal life

- Don't say that, my son
For Dona Alda has just given birth
-Don't tell Dona Alda anything
Until after a year and a day

Days passed
And Dona Alda still knew nothing
You will buy the forty days of mourning
On Easter Sunday