L'alouette et le rossignol

Déjà l'alouette a pris son vol
Et célèbre la liberté !
Son chant perlé descend vers le sol,
Y sème la gaîté.
Le rossignol, gai poète des bois,
Dès l'aube, va, nomade,
Chanter au nids,
A pleine voix
Sa folle sérénade.
Chantez, Chantez, oiseaux,
Pour l'été sá mis en grande toilette,
Chantez les fleurs, la liberté
Chantez, les fleurs,
Gai rossignol. Folle alouette.
Chantez oiseaux, pour vous l'été
S'est mis en grande toilette,
Chantez les fleurs, la liberté,
Les fleurs, la liberté !

Translation(s): DUT

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Submitted by Lidy van Noordenburg

Authorship

• by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

• a text in English by Edward Frederick Lockton (1876 - 1940), as Edward Teschemacher [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Luigi Denza (1846 - 1922), "L'alouette et le rossignol", from Le jardin des fleurs, no. 2. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , title 1: "De leeuwerik en de nachtegaal", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2008-03-17 00:00:00.

Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:38

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