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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Le pauvre laboureur
Language: French (Français) 
Le pauvre laboureur
Il a bien du malheur
Du jour de sa naissance
'L est déjà malheureux.
Qu’il pleuve, qu’il tonne, qu’il vente,
Qu’il fasse mauvais temps,
L’on voit toujours, sans cesse,
Le laboureur aux champs.
 
Le pauvre laboureur
Il n’est qu’un partisan ;
Il est vêtu de toile
Comme un moulin à vent ;
Il met des arselettes,
C’est l’état de son métier
Pour empêcher la terre
D’entrer dans ses souliers.
 
Le pauvre laboureur
A de petits enfants ;
Les envoie à la charrue
À l’âge de quinze ans.
Il a perdu sa femme
À l’âge de trente ans ;
Elle le laisse tout seul
Avecques ses enfants.
 
Le pauvre laboureur,
Il est toujours content ;
Quand ’l est à la charrue,
Il est toujours chantant.
Il n’est roi ni prince,
Ni duc, ni seigneur
Qui ne vive de la peine
Du pauvre laboureur.

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•   R. Quilter 

R. Quilter sets stanzas 1, 3-4

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Le pauvre labourer" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Le pauvre laboureur", published 1947, stanzas 1,3-4 [ voice and piano ], from The Arnold Book of Old Songs, no. 9, London, Boosey & Hawkes, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Harry Rodney Bennett (1890 - 1948) ; composed by Roger Quilter.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-01-30
Line count: 32
Word count: 152

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