# Écrit en vieux français parlé entre le XIIe et le XIVe siècle.

**Intro**

Souz la lune blanche et clere,

{Under the white and clear moon,}

Avoient nuit d’angoisse amere.

{They had a night of bitter anguish.}

L’ombre cort, et fait effroi,

{The shadow runs, and causes fright,}

Li loups-garous regnent en loi.

{The werewolves reign in the distance.}

**Vers 1**

En la forest oscure et parfonde,

{In the dark and deep forest,}

Hulent la beste, d’ame immunde.

{Howls the beast, with an unclean soul.}

Ses iex luist comme flame ardant,

{Its eyes shine like a burning flame,}

Chacent les cuers, tressaillent l’entrant.

{Hunting the hearts, threatening the entrance.}

**Chorus**

*O lune, lune, ton chant maudit,*

{*O moon, moon, your cursed song,*}

*De l’ome fait beste la nuit!*

{*Turns man into beast at night!*}

*Li sans chalt, li cors se duelist,*

{*The blood runs hot, the body transforms,*}

*Jamais la chaene ne s’enruit!*

{*The chain will never break!*}

**Vers 2**

Li vilains dort en son repos,

{The peasant sleeps in his rest,}

Mais li monsires ist de son clos.

{But the lord comes out of his enclosure.}

Portes et murs fremissent fort,

{Doors and walls tremble greatly,}

Nul recors n’i a de confort.

{There is no recourse for comfort.}

**Chorus**

*O lune, lune, ton chant maudit,*

{*O moon, moon, your cursed song,*}

*De l’ome fait beste la nuit!*

{*Turns man into beast at night!*}

*Li sans chalt, li cors se duelist,*

{*The blood runs hot, the body transforms,*}

*Jamais la chaene ne s’enruit!*

{*The chain will never break!*}

**Vers 3**

Homme le jour, beste la nuit,

{Man by day, beast by night,}

Par malédiccion le suit.

{A curse follows him.}

Plore et brait, n’a nul confort,

{He weeps and cries, has no comfort,}

La paour vient, la terre s’enort.

{Fear comes, the land is doomed.}

**Chorus**

*O lune, lune, ton chant maudit,*

{*O moon, moon, your cursed song,*}

*O lune, lune, ton chant maudit,*

{*O moon, moon, your cursed song,*}

*De l’ome fait beste la nuit!*

{*Turns man into beast at night!*}

*Li sans chalt, li cors se duelist,*

{*The blood runs hot, the body transforms,*}

*Jamais la chaene ne s’enruit!*

{*The chain will never break!*}

**Vers 4**

Quant sa huée en bois retentist,

{When its cry resounds in the woods,}

Fuit chascun, car malheur s’adrist.

{Everyone flees, for misfortune is at hand.}

Ainsi li cycles tost se refait,

{Thus the cycle quickly repeats,}

Paour retorne, joie s’en vait.

{Fear returns, joy goes away.}

**Chorus**

*O lune, lune, ton chant maudit,*

{*O moon, moon, your cursed song,*}

*De l’ome fait beste la nuit!*

{*Turns man into beast at night!*}

*Li sans chalt, li cors se duelist,*

{*The blood runs hot, the body transforms,*}

*Jamais la chaene ne s’enruit!*

{*The chain will never break!*}

**Outro**

Souz la lune blanche et clere,

{Under the white and clear moon,}

Fuit la nuit, lesse la misere.

{The night flees, leaving the misery.}

Li loups-garous, en cors humain,

{The werewolf, in human body,}

Atent son sort, demain revient.

{Awaits his fate, tomorrow returns.}