Paroles et traduction Maria del Mar Bonet - La rata que torna una donzella

La rata que torna una donzella

Això era un ermità
Home de Déu
Que no tenia res seu
Ni un tros de pa
Molts de dies per dinar
La boca al vent
Obria, amb gran sentiment
Del ventre seu
Tant si fa calor com neu
Bé mira el cel
Per veure si un glop de mel
Davallarà

Un dia passà un milà
Tot engrescat
Perquè havia capturat
Just aquell dia
Una rata que corria
Per la teulada

L'ermità en veure atrapada
La criatura
Pregà a Déu que fes ventura
A l'animal
Que l'alliberàs del mal
D'ésser escorxada
I dins sa falda, abrigada
La va guardar

Perquè Déu volgué escoltar
L'oració
Que li feia amb gran fervor
El seu servent
Llavors li pregà, content
Per meravella
La fes tornar una donzella
Com no se'n troben
D'aquelles que al cor et roben
Esplais d'amor
I li digué el sant baró

Ai, bella filla
Voldries que el sol que brilla
Fos ton marit?
Ai, que no em sembla garrit
Perquè l'emboira
La pols de qualsevol boira

Ai, la fortuna
Si et marides amb la lluna
La faràs teva
Ai, que la claror no és seva
Car sense el sol
Es vestiria de sol

Ai, si volies
Els núvols, bé que els tendries
Ai, no, que el vent
Se'ls enduu lluny de la gent
I el vent, el vols?
Les voltes dels girasols
Mon cor faria
Car la muntanya mouria
Vent i quimeres
Doncs molt millor del que esperes
N'és la muntanya
No, perquè l'home s'afanya
A foradar-la

Com podria jo estimar-la
Tan rosegada?
Un home, potser, t'agrada
Bell com la plata?
No, perquè mata la rata
Com una fera
Vull tornar a ésser tal com era
I, de bon grat
Per marit tindré
Per marit tindré
Per marit tindré un bell rat

The rat that turns into a damsel

There was once a hermit
Man of God
Who had nothing of his own
Not even a piece of bread
Many days to dine
The mouth in the wind
Opening, with great feeling
From his belly
Whether it's hot or snowy
He gazed to Heaven
To see if a drop of honey
Will come down

One day a kite passed by
All perky
Because he had captured
Right that day
A rat that was running
Through the roof

The hermit seeing trapped
The creature
Prayed to God to give fortune
To the animal
To deliver it from the evil
Of being flayed
And in his lap, sheltered
He kept it

Because God wished to listen
To the prayer
That he made to him with great fervor
His servant
Then he prayed to him, happy
In wonder
Make it turn into a damsel
Such as are not found
Those that steal from your heart
Pleasures of love
And the holy man told him

Oh, beautiful girl
Would you like the sun that shines
To be your husband?
Oh, that doesn't seem cute to me
Because it's fogged up
The dust of any fog

Oh, the fortune
If you marry the moon
You'll make it yours
Oh, that the brightness is not hers
Because without the sun
She would dress in sunlight

Oh, if you wanted
The clouds, surely you would have them
Oh, no, because the wind
Takes them away from the people
And the wind, do you want it?
The turns of the sunflowers
My heart would
Because the mountain would move
Wind and chimeras
Well, much better than you expect
Is the mountain
No, because man is busy
Drilling it

How could I love her
So gnawed?
A man, perhaps, do you like him
Handsome as silver?
No, because he kills the rat
Like a beast
I want to go back to being the way I was
And, gladly
For a husband I will have
For a husband I will have
For a husband I will have a handsome rat