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Original lyrics
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi, föra li palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
A scüsa, sciur padrùn,
sa l’èm fat tribülér:
i éran li prèmi vòlti,
i éran li prèmi vòlti.
A scüsa sciur padrùn
sa l’èm fat tribülér:
i éran li prèmi vòlti,
ca ’n saiévum cuma fér.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi, föra li palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
Prèma a l’rancàun,
e pò dòpo a l’s-ciancàun,
e adès ca l’èm tòt via,
e adès ca l’èm tòt via.
Prèma a l’rancàun
e pò dòpo a l’sciancàun,
e adès ca l’èm tòt via,
al salütém e pò ’ndèm via.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi, föra li palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
Al nòster sciur padrùn
l’è bòn cóme ’l bòn pan,
da stér inséma a l’èrsen,
da stér inséma a l’èrsen.
Al nòster sciur padrùn
l’è bòn cóme ’l bòn pan,
da stér inséma a l’èrsen,
al dis «Fé andér cal man.»
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi, föra li palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
E non va più a mesi
e nemmeno a settimane,
la va a pochi giorni,
la va a pochi giorni.
E non va più a mesi
e nemmeno a settimane,
la va a pochi giorni,
e poi dopo andiamo a cà.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi, föra li palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra li palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
E non va più a mesi
e nemmeno a settimane,
la va a poche ore,
la va a poche ore.
E non va più a mesi
e nemmeno a settimane,
la va a poche ore,
e poi dopo andiamo a cà.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi, föra cal palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
Incö l’è l’ùltim giüren
e admàn l’è la partenza,
farém la riverenza,
farém la riverenza.
Incö l’è l’ùltim giüren
e admàn l’è la partenza,
farém la riverenza
al nòster sciur padrùn.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi, föra cal palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
E quand al tréno s-céffla,
i mundéin a la stassión,
con la cassiètta in spala,
con la cassiètta in spala.
E quand al tréno s-céffla,
i mundéin a la stassión,
con la cassiètta in spala,
su e giù per i vagón.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi, föra cal palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
Quando saremo a casa
dai nostri fidanzati,
ci daremo tanti baci,
ci daremo tanti baci.
Quando saremo a casa
dai nostri fidanzati,
ci daremo tanti baci,
tanti baci in quantità.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi, föra cal palanchi.
Sciur padrùn da li bèli braghi bianchi,
föra cal palanchi ch’andùm a cà.
- 1. Questo è un canto popolare delle mondine, le donne che giravano per tutto il nord Italia per lavorare nelle risaie.
La lingua è una specie di lingua franca usata dalle mondine per comunicare tra loro (che parlavano dialetti diversi), consistente in un misto di italiano e vari dialetti (veneto, lombardo, emiliano, piemontese,…).
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciur_padrun_da_li_beli_braghi_bianchi
Translation
Master Sir With Nice White Trousers
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
Sorry, master, sir,
if we caused you any trouble:
it was our first time,
it was our first time.
Sorry, master, sir,
if we caused you any trouble:
it was our first time,
we didn’t know how to do it.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
We first uprooted it,
then we tore it off,2
and now that we’ve removed it,
and now that we’ve removed it.
We first uprooted it,
then we tore it off,
and now that we’ve removed it,
we’ll say goodbye to you and go away.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
Our master sir
has a heart of gold,
and he stands on the bank,
and he stands on the bank.
Our master sir
has a heart of gold,
and he stands on the bank,
telling us «Move those hands.»4
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
And it’s no longer in months5
nor in weeks,
it’s in a few days,
it’s in a few days.
And it’s no longer in months
nor in weeks,
it’s in a few days,
and then we’ll go home.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
And it’s no longer in months
nor in weeks,
it’s in a few hours,
it’s in a few hours.
And it’s no longer in months
nor in weeks,
it’s in a few hours,
and then we’ll go home.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
Today is the last day
and tomorrow is the departure day,
we’ll curtsy,
we’ll curtsy.
Today is the last day
and tomorrow is the departure day,
we’ll curtsy
to our master sir.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
And when the train whistles,
the mondine at the station,
with their case on their shoulder,
with their case on their shoulder.
And when the train whistles,
the mondine at the station,
with their case on their shoulder,
up and down the carriages.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
When we are at home
with our boyfriends,
we’ll kiss many times,
we’ll kiss many times.
When we are at home
with our boyfriends,
we’ll kiss many times,
a whole lot of kisses.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, pay up.
Master, sir, with nice white trousers,
pay up, so we can go home.
- 1. This is a popular song of the mondine, women who travelled northern Italy to work in rice paddies.
The language is a kind of lingua franca used by mondine to communicate among themselves (they spoke different Italian dialects), and consists of a mixture of Italian and various dialects (from Veneto, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont,…).
Their master wears ‟nice white trousers” to symbolise his distance from the labour of the mondine, who spent all day with their feet in the water (rice paddies are fields that get completely flooded).
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciur_padrun_da_li_beli_braghi_bianchi - 2. Mondine had to extirpate weeds from paddy fields; they had to mondare {clean up} the field, hence their name.
Among the weeds they had to remove, there was giavone {cockspur}, which has to be uprooted; if it is just torn or cut off, it grows back easily.
Indeed, the original song followed this order: ‟We first tore it off, then we uprooted it; sorry,
master, sir, if we caused you any trouble, but it was our first time [doing this job] and we didn’t know how to do it [properly].”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinochloa_crus-galli - 3. http://pataia.free.fr/spip.php?article53&lang=it
- 4. The master is ironically buono come il pane {as good as bread; he has a heart of gold}: the job of a mondina was really tough.
The master is buono {good; he is able to, he can} stay on the bank of the field, not working but telling them to ‟move their hands”, to work faster. - 5. Meaning ‟the time we have left until the end of this job is short, we no longer count it in months”.
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