Berceuse

Ton père est à la messe,
Ta mère au cabaret,
Tu auras sur les fesses
Si tu vas encore crier.

Ma mère était pauvresse
Sur la lande à Auray
Et moi je fais des crêpes
En te berçant du pied.

Si tu mourais du croup,
Coliques ou diarrhées
Si tu mourais des croûtes
Que tu as sur le nez,

Je pêcherais des crevettes
À l'heure de la marée
Pour faire la soupe aux têtes:
Y a pas besoin de crochets.

Translation(s): ENG GER

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Authorship

• by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), appears in La côte. Chants bretons, first published 1911 [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Berceuse", FP. 59 (1931), from Cinq Poèmes de Max Jacob, no. 4. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "Lullaby", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Wiegenlied", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Wiegenlied

Dein Vater ist bei der Messe,
deine Mutter in der Schenke.
Du kriegst den Hintern versohlt,
wenn du wieder schreist.

Meine Mutter war eine Bettlerin
auf der Heide von Auray,
und ich mache Pfannkuchen 
und schaukle dich dabei mit dem Fuß.

Wenn du am Krupp,
an Koliken oder Diarrhöe stirbst,
wenn du an der Kruste
auf deiner Nase stirbst,

würde ich Garnelen fangen
bei Ebbe und Flut.
Um Fischkopfsuppe zu machen,
braucht man keine Haken.

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Authorship

• Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in French (Français) by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), appears in La côte. Chants bretons, first published 1911 ENG
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Francis Poulenc. Go to the text.

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