A traditional song from the Balearic Islands.
This version, by the bands Ressonadors and Projecte Mut, is played in a more pop way. If you want to hear it played in the traditional ways, you can find different versions in the following links: by Urbàlia Rurana and Uc.
Here you have the original lyrics in Catalan and the translation of each stanza to English.
Jo tenc una enamorada a sa banda de Migjorn, i en ser que la vaig a veure sempre em diu que quan hi torn.
I have a lover in the side of noon [South], and when I go to see her she always asks me when I’m coming back.
Jo li dic que serà prompte si no mo’ n'anam del món: quan es pins faran magranes i ses figueres, melons.
I tell her that it will be soon if we don’t leave the world: when the pine trees will make pomegrenates and the fig trees, melons.
La mar estarà eixuta i hi correran carretons; per dins es terços de botges hi pescaran es caçons.
The sea will be dry and carts will run through it; inside the fields of botges [a kind of flower] the tope sharks will be fished.
I llavò jo tornaré I em casaré amb tu, si vols; ja et pots començar a fer roba, Que hi hem de sortir bufons;
And then I will come back and I will marry you, if you want; you can start making your clothes, for we have to be cute;
que a sa cinta portaré una arma de dos canons, i cada tron que faré serà de dos trons bessons.
In the waist I will wear a weapon with two barrels, and every thunder I will make will be from two twin thunders.
Jo tenc una enamorada, i a sa banda de mitjorn, i en ser que la vaig a veure sempre em diu que quan hi torn.
I have a lover in the side of noon [South], and when I go to see her she always asks me when I’m coming back.
Jo li dic que serà prompte si no me'n vaig del món, quan els pins faran maçanes I ses savines melons.
I tell her it will be soon, if I don’t leave the world, when the pine trees will make apples and the juniper, melons.
I la mar estirà eixuta que hi correran carretons, i per dins els terços de botges hi pescaran caçons.
The sea will be dry and carts will run through it; inside the fields of botges [a kind of flower] the tope sharks will be fished.
