Track # 4
Kouskit
Tríona heard this lullaby for the first time over fifty years ago on her first stay in Brittany on a recording of an anonymous woman from the Pays Vanntais. Jean Pol Huellou tracked down the words for Tríona.
Kouskit buhan, ma bugelig
Ha me a gano deoc’h
Pa demo d’ar gê ho mammig
E rolo bronnig deoc’h
Ho mamm a zo danserez
Ho tad a zo mezvier
Ha me ar vatez vihan
A zo chomet er gêr.
Go asleep quickly my little child
And I will sing to you
When your grandmother comes home
She will give you the teat.
Your mother is a dancer
Your father is a drinker
And I am the little servant girl
Who stayed at home.