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Tu as tout seul, [Jean-Jean]1, vignes et prés ; Tu as tout seul ton cœur et ta pécune ; Tu as tout seul deux logis diaprés, Là où vivant ne prétend chose aucune ; Tu as tout seul le fruit de ta fortune ; Tu as tout seul ton boire et ton repas ; Tu as tout seul toutes choses, fors d'une : C'est que tout seul ta femme tu n'as pas.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with La France Littéraire, Tome XXXVIII, Paris, Bureaux de la France Littéraire, 1840, page 69.
1 Françaix: "Jan-Jan"; Sweelinck: "Ian-Ian"Text Authorship:
- by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544), no title, written <<1544, appears in Les Épigrammes, in 4. Livre IV [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 Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997), "De jan-jan", 1941, published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from L'adolescence Clémentine, no. 1, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621), "Tu as tout seul", published 1598 [ SSATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), [adaptation] ; composed by Clement Janequin.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "On Jan-Jan", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2016-04-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 68
You alone own, jan-jan, vineyards and meadows, You alone own your heart and your money; You alone own two iridescent residences, Where no living thing dares to do anything; You alone own the fruit of your fortune, You alone own your drink and your meal, You alone own everything, except one thing: It’s just that, alone, you don’t have your wife.
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Based on:
- a text in Middle French by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544), no title, written <<1544, appears in Les Épigrammes, in 4. Livre IV
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 61