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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Les belles manières
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Javotte enfin, vous grandissez,
Venez, il faut que je vous gronde,
Vous ne vous donnez pas assez
Les belles manières du monde;
Refrain
   Car c’est comm’ ci,
   Car c’est comm’ çà,
   Regardez-moi, ma fille,
   C’est comm’ ci, c’est comm’ çà,
   Qu’on fait honneur à sa famille.

Il faut, sans y faire semblant
Lorsque vous sortez le dimanche,
Pour qu’on vous regarde en passant,
Avoir un certain tour de hanche.
Refrain

Lorsqu’un gentilhomme viendra
Vous glisser son tendre martyre,
Vous ne répondrez rien à çà,
Mais vous lui ferez un sourire.
Refrain

Un époux je vous choisirai,
Vous direz: j’en suis bien contente;
Volontiers je me marierai…
Non pas une fois mais bien trente…
   Car c’est comm’ ci,
   Car c’est comm’ çà,
   C’est le bon ton, ma fille,
   C’est comm’ ci, c’est comm’ çà,
   Qu’on fait honneur à sa famille.

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs)  [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 Marie-Joseph-Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (1872 - 1921), "Les belles manières", 1905, published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les vieilles chansons de France, no. 9, Éd. E. Meuriot, A. Rouart successeur [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gustave Ferrari (1872 - 1948), "Les belles manières", published 1911, copyright © 1911 [ voice and piano ], B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The polite manners", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-07
Line count: 29
Word count: 139

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