Solly En Ma - Laurika Rauch traduction en anglais

Solly En Ma

Na pa se dood was ma alleen
(Die Karoo in die winter word koud)
Ek was tien daardie jaar en my broer was vier
En my ma was skielik oud

Sy't rokke gemaak vir die hele distrik
En gewerk tot laat in die nag
En soms as sy opkyk sou 'n mens kon sweer
Dat sy pa op die drumpel verwag

Solly was 'n boerejood
Op reis van plek tot plek
Met knope en lappe sy brood verdien
Dog kwalik sy petrol gedek

En deur die jare het Solly aan ma
Meer as knope en garing verkoop
Haar oë was nou immer op die pad gerig
In haar hart was daar skielik weer hoop

Na ete dan vat hy ma se hand
En die kinders moes buite bly
Maar selfs na jare se kom en gaan
Bly sy woorde my steeds nog by:

Kom ek en jy gaan vye pluk
En ons los die kind om te speel
Die lewe is hard en die bietjie geluk
Wat ons het, my lief, moet ons deel
Want dis rooier as 'n malva
En dis so seker soos die son
Selfs anderkant die liefde
Lê my hart se horison

Die jare het verbygeflits
Die lewe was goed vir ma
Solly het haar weer 'n vrou gemaak
Gehelp om die las te dra

Maar eendag het ons nuus gekry
Van die Buick op 'n draai in die pad
Ma se hart het ineengekrimp
Want die Here het Solly gevat

Ek weet dit was sonde, het ma gebieg
En die singer getrap dat hy dreun
Want 'n vrou bly 'n vrou, en Solly was man
Maar wat sal jy weet my seun?

En tog onthou ek sy sagte oë
As hy vra of ons buite sou bly
En selfs na jare se kom en gaan
Bly sy woorde my steeds nog by:

Kom ek en jy gaan vye pluk
En ons los die kind om te speel
Die lewe is hard en die bietjie geluk
Wat ons het, my lief, moet ons deel
Want dis rooier as 'n malva
En dis so seker soos die son
Selfs anderkant die liefde
Lê my hart se horison

Kom ek en jy gaan vye pluk
En ons los die kind om te speel
Die lewe is hard en die bietjie geluk
Wat ons het, my lief, moet ons deel
Want dis rooier as 'n malva
En dis so seker soos die son
Selfs anderkant die liefde
Lê my hart se horison

Want dis rooier as 'n malva
En dis so seker soos die son
Selfs anderkant die liefde
Lê my hart se horison

Solly En Ma

When I was a child, I was alone
(The Karoo becomes cold in winter)
I was ten that year and my brother was four
And my mother had suddenly grown old

She made dresses for the whole district
And worked until late at night
And sometimes when she looked up, one could swear
That she expected her father on the doorstep

Solly was a Jewish farmer
Traveling from place to place
Earning his living with buttons and cloth
But hardly covering his petrol

And over the years Solly gave mother
More than buttons and thread
Her eyes were now always focused on the road
Suddenly there was hope in her heart again

After dinner he would take mother's hand
And the children had to stay outside
But even after years of coming and going
His words still stay with me:

Come, you and I will go and pick figs
And we will leave the child to play
Life is hard and the little bit of happiness
That we have, my love, we must share
Because it is redder than a mallow
And it is as certain as the sun
Even beyond love
Lies the horizon of my heart

The years flew by
Life was good for mother
Solly had made her a woman again
Helped to carry the burden

But one day we received news
Of the Buick on a bend in the road
Mother's heart sank
For the Lord had taken Solly

I know it was a sin, mother confessed
And she pedaled the singer until it roared
Because a woman remains a woman, and Solly was a man
But what would you know, my son?

And yet I remember his gentle eyes
As he asked if we would stay outside
And even after years of coming and going
His words still stay with me:

Come, you and I will go and pick figs
And we will leave the child to play
Life is hard and the little bit of happiness
That we have, my love, we must share
Because it is redder than a mallow
And it is as certain as the sun
Even beyond love
Lies the horizon of my heart

Come, you and I will go and pick figs
And we will leave the child to play
Life is hard and the little bit of happiness
That we have, my love, we must share
Because it is redder than a mallow
And it is as certain as the sun
Even beyond love
Lies the horizon of my heart

Because it is redder than a mallow
And it is as certain as the sun
Even beyond love
Lies the horizon of my heart