Mareta, mareta
Cançó popular valenciana / Valencian folk song
Mareta, mareta,
anit vaig somiar
que una nineta
m'havies comprat.
La nina tenia
bonics els seus ulls,
la cara ben fian
i els cabells molt rulls.
Mum, mum,
last night I dreamed
that you had bought me
a doll.
The doll has
its eyes nice,
the face very fine
and the hair very curly.
La nina plorava,
quan jo l'adormia.
I, si li cantava,
la son li venia.
Mentre l'agrunsava,
així jo li deia:
"Adorm-te, nineta,
nina de ma vida!"
The doll was crying,
when I was noding off it.
And, if I was singing to it,
the sleep sent it.
While I was swinging it,
I told it this:
"Nod off, doll,
doll of my life!"
Font: Lletra treta del llibre 6. Llebeig, coordinat per Pere Riutort.