Ivan Benak

pučki pjesnik · folk poet  ·  Sopje 1933. – Valpovo 2015.Sopje 1933 – Valpovo 2015

Humoristične pjesme

Cecilija Color reklamira

Humorous poems

Cecilija Advertises Color

Jučer svratih ja u MARKET COLOR.Cecilija na ulazu stoji,pogledam ju, a ona se smije,oh, ljepote, dragi ljudi moji.

I dropped in yesterday at MARKET COLOR;Cecilija is standing by the door.I look at her, and she just smiles at me:oh, my dear people, beauty to the core!

Pozdravim ju i namignem malo,a ona se još jače nasmije,u pete mi odmah srce palo:ljepše žene od Cecike nije.

I greet her, and I give a little wink,and she returns a still more dazzling smile;down to my heels my heart dropped in a blink:there's none more fair than Cecika, by a mile!

Od sada ću svaki dan u COLORda kupujem mada ništ' ne želim,i pozdravim dragu Ceciliju,nekoliko riječi da joj velim.

From now on every day I'll go to COLORto shop, though there is nothing I would buy,and say hello to my dear Cecilija,and pass a word or two as I go by.

Svojim glasom da ljepotu stvara,divnom pjesmom da nam pruži raja:„Ne ritaj se mačketino stara,joj, kirvaja ispod šlingeraja!“

So with her voice she'd make such beauty ring,and with a lovely song bring heaven near:"Stop kicking, you old she-cat, you old thing,oh, kirvaja beneath the lace so sheer!"

U COLORU sad kupujem stvari,koje nikad ja trebati neću,da dokažem da sam kupac starii da COLOR zbog nje ima sreću.

At COLOR now I buy up things galorethat I shall never need in any way,to prove I am a customer of yore,and that she brings COLOR its luck each day.

Narod žuri, ništa ne govori,u tom trenu Cecilija sniva.Samo stoji i ništa ne zboridivna lutka kao da je živa!

The people hurry past, no word is heard;in that same moment Cecilija dreams.She only stands there, never says a word:a lovely doll, alive, or so it seems!

Valpovo, 01. 05. 2013.

Valpovo, May 1, 2013

Translator's note. Color is a shop. Cecilija, who greets him at its entrance, turns out in the last stanza to be a doll. The line she sings is from a folk song; the kirvaja is the village church fair.