The Sound of Music and Guido of Arezzo

Do you remember the clip of the film Mary Poppins which we saw at the beginning of this project? She is played by the English actress and singer Julie Andrews, who made another lovely musical in 1965: 

 The Sound of Music

In this film (with lovely songs by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein), she plays a governess who teaches the seven children in the family to sing. To do this she uses a song in which the first word of each line sounds like the name of each note of the musical scale:

Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti (in English they say "ti" instead of "si"), do. 

Let´s just practice singing the scale: 

Mark DiSciullo Sing do-re-mi Licencia YouTube

Now, here are the words of the song that she teaches the children to sing: 

(Do) Doe, a deer, a female deer
(Re) ray, a drop of golden sun
(Mi) me, a name I call myself
(Fa) far, a long, long way to run
(So) sew, a needle pulling thread
(La) la, a note to follow so
(Ti) tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to doe.

Can you translate this? 

The literal translation would be: 

Cerva, un cervo, un cervo femia,

Raio, unha gota de sol dourado. 

Eu, un nome polo que me chamo a min mesma,

Lonxe, un longo camiño a percorrer,

Coser, unha agulla que tira do fío, 

La, unha nota que segue o sol,

Té, unha bebida con pan e marmelada, 

E isto traenos de volta ao do. 

This sounds terrible in Galician! That's because when you translate songs you sometimes have to change the meaning a bit so that it follows the rhythm of the music and it rhymes. Do you know how they translated this song for dubbing the Spanish version of the film......? And what do you think of this translation?......