Lyrics of Senyor botiguer - Sisa

Senyor botiguer (original)

Oh, senyor botiguer!
Sempre us he vist ficat
Dins d’un sac de confits i amb una peixera al cap
Entre cebes i alls i pernils
Oh, senyor botiguer!
Sou vós i els vostres fills
Que perfumen els carrers amb floretes d’anís
Que mai no heu olorat ni heu sentit quan la flor ha de florir
Oh, senyor botiguer!
Sempre heu fet un bon pas
Vos sou home de seny, senyor botiguer
Vos sou l’home amagat del meu somni ancestral
Personatge important del meu somni perdut
On aquest barri humit, aquest barri envellit
Pels efluvis del mar i del vent
Vos sou l’home malalt que fuig corrent del meu llit
Quan arribo a dormir sense somnis estranys
Oh, senyor botiguer!
Morireu de bon temps
Amb el cel tan serè com el món curt i estret
De bon jan català, honorable i cristià
Que heu creat

(translation)

Oh, Mr. Shopkeeper!
I've always seen you stuck
Inside a sack of confits and with a fishbowl on his head
Between onions and garlic and hams
Oh, Mr. Shopkeeper!
It is you and your children
That perfume the streets with anise flowers
That you have never smelled or heard when the flower should bloom
Oh, Mr. Shopkeeper!
You have always taken a good step
You are a man of sense, Mr. Shopkeeper
You are the hidden man of my ancestral dream
Major character in my lost dream
Where this wet neighborhood, this aging neighborhood
By the effluvia of the sea and the wind
You are the sick man running away from my bed
When I get to sleep without strange dreams
Oh, Mr. Shopkeeper!
You will die of good weather
With the sky as serene as the short and narrow world
Good Catalan, honorable and Christian
that you have created