Context:
Traditional occitan song, popular during the political Carnaval of Marseille. “Juan-Glaudi” is the name of one right-wing mayor of the city who’s giant papier-mâché figure was set on fire at the end of the carnaval.
Original
Adieu paure, adieu paure
Adieu paure Carnavas
Tu t’en vas e ieu m’en t’òrni
Adieu paure Carnavas
1. Adieu ta bèla joinessa
Va te siàs pron divertit
As acabat tei richessa
Ara deves t’en repentir
2. S’es verai qu’as fa ripalha
Qu’as dansat dins de palais
Va resta nus sus la palha
E plen de fen come un ai
Refrain
Tchi ri tchi tchi tchi tchi tchi tchi
Escota ben marrit Juan-Glaudi
Tchi ri tchi tchi tchi tchi tchi tchi
Escota ben se que te diáu
3x
3. Adieu tu que te chalava
Que to siàs vist adorat
Adieu lei sous qu’escampava
Ara la ròda a virat
4. Te fau cambiar de regime
E si voès pas lo subir
Per te punir de tieus crime
Marrias anam te chabir
Refrain + Tchi ri tchi tchi
5. Adieu vielh paire dei vici
Lo carème es arribat
Es lo jorn de la justicìa
Adieu tu que vas crebar
6. Tot lo pople te saluda
Eu s’entorna e tu t’en vas
Ta darnièra ora es venguda
Adieu paura Carnavas!
Refrain + Tchi ri tchi tchi
English translation
Goodbye poor, goodbye poor,
farewell poor Carnival.
You leave and I return.
Farewell poor Carnival.
Farewell to your beautiful youth. Come on, you’ve had your fun. You’ve squandered your wealth, now you will regret it.
If it is true that you made feast, that you danced in palaces, stayed naked on the straw, and stuffed with hay like a donkey.
Refrain
Tchi ri tchi tchi tchitchi tchitchi
Listen well, mayor Jean-Claude,
tchi ri tchi tchi tchitchi tchitchi
listen well to what I say.
Farewell, you who used to take it easy, you who saw yourself adulated. Farewell to the money you were throwing out the window, now the wheel has turned.
You have to change your lifestyle, and if you don’t want to suffer, to punish you for your crimes, vermin, we will finish you off!
Refrain + Tchi ri tchi tchi
Goodbye old perverse father, Lent has arrived. It is the day of the justice. Farewell to you who will die.
All the people greet you, returns to him, and you, you go away. Your last hour has come. Farewell poor Carnival.
Refrain + Tchi ri tchi tchi