La grenouille américaine

La grenouille américaine
Me regarde par-dessus
Ses bésicles du futaine.
Ses yeux sont des grogs massus
Dépourvus de jolitaine.
Je pense à Casadesus
Qui n'a pas fait de musique
Sur cette scène d'amour
Dont le parfum nostalgique
Sort d'une boîte d'Armour.

Argus de table tu gardes
L'âme du crapaud Vanglor
Ô bouillon qui me regardes
Avec tes lunettes d'or.

Translation(s): ENG

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Authorship

• by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947) [ 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 Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925), "La grenouille américaine", 1923, from Ludions, no. 3. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Peter Low) , title 1: "The American frog", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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

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The American frog

 The Amaiwican Fwoggy
 ogles me from over his
 spectacles of green and yellow.
 Eyes he has, eye-normous globes
 utterly lacking in prettinizz.
 I think of Casa de Susic
 who has never once made music
 in this amorous boudoir
 which reeks of odours nostalgic
 out of a candy-jar.
 
 You are an Argus, the bearer
 of the soul of Todis Rex,
 oh you bubble-ogle starer
 eyeing me through golden specs.

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• a text in French (Français) by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Alfred Erik Leslie Satie. Go to the text.

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