Romansh Lullaby
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Romansh Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by the Romansh-speaking community of Switzerland’s Grisons canton, home to the country’s fourth national language. Romansh is spoken by less than one percent of the Swiss population, yet it has held official status at the national level since a 1938 referendum, and because the language itself splits into five distinct regional written variants, a unified standard called Rumantsch Grischun was created in 1982 to help bring them together. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Romansh Lullaby” Means
“Mamma” means mother in Romansh, Switzerland’s fourth national language, spoken by a small community in the canton of Grisons. Each spring, Romansh children celebrate Chalandamarz, ringing cowbells and cracking whips to chase away winter. This original lullaby draws on those alpine and cowbell-festival images of Romansh life, with “mamma” used as a warm address rather than a literal translation.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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