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bel aubepin

from Le Puy en Velay by Mishaped Pearls

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A song about a Hawthorne tree!

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Bel aubépin, fleurissant, verdissant le long de ce beau rivage.
Tu es vêtu jusqu'au bas des longs bras d'une lambrunche sauvage.
Or vis, gentil aubépin, vis sans fin.
Le chantre rossignolet nouvelet courtisant sa bien-aimée.
Sur ta cime il fait son nid, gentil aubépin.
Deux camps de rouges fourmis se sont mis en garnison sous ta souche.
En ton pied demi-mangé, allongé les avettes ont leur couche.
Or vis gentil aubépin, vis sans fin, vis sans que jamais tonnerre, ou la cognée, ou les vents,ou les temps te puissent ruer par terre.

Lovely hawthorne tree, blossoming, flourishing along this beautiful shore.
You are dressed all the way down to the end of your long arms with a wild vine.
So live, beautiful hawthorne tree, live without end.
The young nightingale singer is courting his beloved.
On your peak he makes his nest, lovely hawthorne tree.
Two camps of red ants have set up garrison under your trunk.
In your half eaten foot, stretched out, the bees have their bed .
So live beautiful hawthorne tree, live without end, live so that never thunder, or the axe, or the winds, or the times succeed in pulling you to the ground.

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from Le Puy en Velay, released December 3, 2010

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