[in French:]
Citizens of the whole world
Listen well to this song
It will be a tale, an epic
A joyous prayer
Between two seas lived a people
No, they weren’t worse than others
With a single difference
They were sick within their borders
And despite the songs of the troubadours
And despite the prayers of the Cathar Good Men
They still lived « desconsolats »
Nothing could come to distract them
One had never seen a country so… blasé
[in Occitan:]
Citizens of the whole world
Listen closely to my song
It will be a tale, an epic
A joyous prayer
It will be a tale, an epic
A joyous prayer
Between two seas there was a people
They weren’t worse than any other
With a single difference
They were sick of their homes
With a single difference
They were sick of their homes
Neither by songs nor by prayers
They still lived disconsolately
And nothing could distract them
Nothing from the country could disgust them more
And nothing could distract them
Nothing from the country could disgust them more
[in French:]
Citizens, listen well to the fable
For its discourse is just and clear
[in Occitan:]
Here one day from an eastern wind
There arrived a strange people
They said: “Quit feeling sorry for yourselves
We come to you to set you free again.”
They said: “Quit feeling sorry for yourselves
We come to you to set you free again.”
They stayed for more than seven centuries
They changed everything from the beginning to end
Men and Gods, and laws and language
The whole country was paired
Men and Gods, and laws and language
The whole country was paired
They chose to tolerate
Mixing and mingling
At the time the resistance
Didn’t lose anything for hoping
At the time the resistance
Didn’t lose anything for hoping
Citizens believe well the fable
Because its speech is just and clear
It is necessary to cultivate inter-ethnicity
For one’s culture to become reinvigorated
It is necessary to cultivate inter-ethnicity
For one’s culture to become reinvigorated
Citizens of the whole world
Listen closely to my song
It will be a tale, an epic
A joyous prayer
It will be a tale, an epic
A joyous prayer