Translation of the song Matinet me'n lyevo artist Catalan Folk

Matinet me'n lyevo

Early morning, I wake up

Ab lo sol eyxit,

With the sun already risen,

La ramada engego

I drive the herd

Per un camp florit.

Across a blossomed field.

Questa Primavera,

This Spring

Un nyu só trobat

I have found a nest

Vora una ribera

By a river

A la fóns d'un prat.

At the bottom of a meadow.

Totes les veynes

All my female neighbours

M'en duytzen: «Johan,

Tell me: 'John,

Les vostres cardines

Your goldfinches

May non canteran!».

Shall never sing!'.

Jo'ls hy responnia:

I answered to them:

«Jo no'en sey per quê...

'I do not know why...

Si per d'autres canten,

If they sing for others,

Per mi aussi bé».

Then for me as well'.

Au dalt d'una branca

On top of a branch

Lo cucut cantà:

The cuckoo sang;

La meua amoreta

My beloved

Va ab un advocat.

Is dating a lawyer.

Vós, cucut, non diyitz

You, cuckoo, do not say

Çò qui heuz vyst ací;

What you have seen here:

Vos donaré panses

I shall give you raisins

Au vespre et matí!

Both in the evening and in the morning!