Paroles et traduction I Muvrini - U pastore di Ghisoni

U pastore di Ghisoni

Per rompe a santa pace
Di a notte di Natale,
Dicembre avia sceltu
À prima ora vesperale
Di fà move à l'ispensata
Un funestu timpurale.

Fraiu di tanu è timpesta
Ne sufria la cuntrata
Nu la piana à Cumineddu
Da la neve accampata
C' era una banda di capre
A la morte cundannata

A spicciera u pastore
Corse ver di l'alta serra
Da le borghe risunava
U rughju di a fiumara
Quandu chjama lu destinu
Ùn c'hè forza chi u para.

U duvere per la manu
U s'hà presu, l'hà purtatu
Fin'à la so bandarella,
Mezu à ella hè cascatu
Prima di francà la verga
A u puntu signalatu.

U pastore si murria
À l'eternu si n'andava
A banda di e so capre
In chjerchju lu ricaldava
Nu la notte negra è bianca
A parca s'incaminava

Mezu à le so caprarelle
Si n 'hè mortu un gran pastore
S'hè spentu quandu nascia
U Bambinu redentore
Ci aghju vistu cum'un cennu
D'una manu superiore.

Ci aghju vistu cum'un cennu
D'una manu superiore.

Traduction

Pour briser la quiétude /
De la nuit de Noël /
Décembre avait choisi /
A l'heure vespérale
De déchaîner soudain /
Ses funestes tempêtes

Le fracas du tonnerre /
Et les vents emportés /
Faisaient trembler la terre
Là-haut sur le plateau /
Harcelé par la neige /
Un troupeau condamné /

Attendait son destin
Et la vallée roulait /
Des eaux tumultueuses /
Mais le berger soucieux /
A entendu la voix
Et se hâte déjà /
Vers le fatal appel

Le devoir le mène /
Jusqu'au troupeau perdu /
C'est là qu'il est tombé /
Des éléments victime
Alors qu'il était près /
De toucher à son but

L'homme agonisant /
Allant vers l'Eternel /
Et son troupeau serré /
En cercle lui faisait
Un giron de chaleur /
Pendant qu'à la nuit noire /
La Parque cheminait

Au milieu de ses bêtes
/ Est mort ce grand pasteur /
À ce moment précis /
Où naît l'enfant Jésus
Et j'y vois comme un signe /
Du plus haut descendu

Et j'y vois comme un signe /
Du plus haut descendu

The Shepherd of Ghisoni

To break the holy peace
Of Christmas Eve night,
December had chosen
At the first hour of evening
To unleash unexpectedly
A deadly storm.

Brother of thunder and tempest
The countryside suffered
Not on the plain at Cumineddu
From the snow encamped
There was a band of goats
Condemned to death

The shepherd set out quickly
Ran towards the high hills
From the village resounded
The roar of the river
When destiny calls
There is no force that can stop it.

The duty in his hand
He took it, he carried it
Right to his flock
He fell amidst them
Before reaching the gate
At the appointed time.

The shepherd died
He went to eternity
His flock of goats
Warmed him in a circle
In the black and white night
The fates were approaching

Amongst his flock of she-goats
There died a great shepherd
He died as the Child
The Redeemer was born
I saw it as a sign
From a higher hand.

I saw it as a sign
From a higher hand.

Translation

To break the quietude /
Of the Christmas night /
December had chosen /
In the evening hour
Of setting loose suddenly /
His fatal storm

The crash of thunder /
And the winds carried /
Made the earth tremble
Up there on the plateau /
Harassed by the snow /
A flock condemned /

Waited for its fate
And the valley rolled /
Of tumultuous waters /
But the caring shepherd /
Has heard the voice
And is already hurried /
Towards the call of destiny

The duty leads him /
Until the lost flock /
It is there that he fell /
Victim to the elements
While he was near /
To reach his goal

The agonizing man /
Going to the Eternal /
And his close flock /
Made him a
Lap of warmth /
While during the dark night /
The Fate walked

In the midst of his beasts
/ Died this great shepherd /
At this precise moment /
When the Child Jesus is born
And I see it as a sign /
Of the highest descended

And I see it as a sign /
Of the highest descended