The Boat Scene
– only the parts in Sarkese follow –
Monks: Mêtre Maguâře!! Sòve-nû̥!🔊
Prince of G.: Sên’pěre! Ma fiłe, ů’n peut pâ dvizě! Peû-tu nǔ̥z’êdẏ?🔊
Holy father! My daughter, she cannot speak! Can you help us?
Prince of G.: Či, ma fiłe?🔊
What is it, my daughter?
Daughter: Ê bê cê dê …🔊
A, B, C, D …
Prince of G.: Ů’pâle! 🔊
She speaks!
Monk: Mêtre Maguâře, un Gérnezyê ê ňé!🔊
Master Magloire, a Guernseyman has drowned!
Fisherman: J’sî vivân!🔊
I’m alive!
The Choir: 🔊
Nůtře Sên’Maguâře, chut dur bû̥n cǒṙ, Our Saint Magloire, this very good man,
i’sòvit dê jóne, o Bû̥n Dyeu priàn, Saved children, praying to the Lord,
é un pêčeuř ki fut ben mǒṙ – And a fisherman who was dead –
I’s dbutit é fut vivàn. He stood up and was alive.