Profane Songs. The profane repertory includes ballads, serenades, funny songs and it is sung at festivals and while working, during the various seasonal phases of the different agricultural activities. It includes pieces typically from Ceriana and from the western regions of Liguria and songs from other northern parts, songs of ancient times and of recent ones too. The songs in Ceriana were always born from everyday life situations and are linked to real people, proper places and facts which really happened. The themes depict vivacious plots of family and village life, the wish of revenge of the betrayed lover, love and lovers` stories, the taste for gossip, arguments on inheritance, arranged and unhappy marriages, the goodbyes of soldiers to their beloved, the unwelcome advice from a mother to her young daughter, a lovers`dreams. The profane repertory reminds us sometimes of the past links that western Liguria had to France, which with her kings and the kings` sons is often present in our ballads. PROFANE SONG U MESE DU GRANU STUCHI' LE' U MESE CHE SCIURISCE 'L GRANO STUCHI' LE' U MESE CHE SCIURISCE 'L GRANO CHE L'E' NàITU INA BELLA FIGLIA CU INA ROSA IN MANO E L'E' NàITA 'N FRANSA E BATESà IN SARDEGNA L'E' NàITA 'N FRANSA E BATESà IN SARDEGNA E GHE' METTEREMO NOME DIANA STELLA O DIANA STELLA E FàIMENE INA GRàSIA O DIANA STELLA FàIMENE INA GRàSIA E CHE VEGA LU MEI AMOR CANDU (U) PASSA DE'N CIàSA E U PASSA D'EN CIàSA E U PASSERA' CANTANDU PASSà D'EN CIàSA U PASSERA' CANTANDU E COGLI OCCHI RIVOLTI AL CIELO 'L CUORE SOSPIRANDO SOSPIRA CUORE CHE RAIZUN TI N'àI SOSPIRA CUORE CHE RAIZUN TI N'àI UE' LA BELLA SE NE MARIDA E MA TU NON LO SAI SA SE MARIDA E A SAVERà CHI A PRENDE SA SE MARIDA (A) SAVERà CHI A PRENDE E MA QUESTE SUN ROSE E FIOR CHE NUN SE PONE RENDE SA SE MARIDA (A) SAVERà CHI A PRENDE E MA QUESTE SUN ROSE E FIOR CHE NUN SE PONE (N) RENDE Home Page