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Mais Madame écoutez-moi donc Vous perdez quelque chose - C'est mon coeur pas grand-chose Ramassez-le donc Je l'ai donné je l'ai repris Il fut là-bas dans les tranchées Il est ici j'en ris j'en ris Des belles amours que la mort a fauchées
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Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 2 [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 Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "C'est mon cœur" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Les attentives II", op. 135 no. 6, from Symphony no. 14, no. 6, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) , copyright © ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Madame, miri!", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "Madame, look!", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 42
Aber Madame, hören Sie mir doch zu. Sie verlieren etwas - mein Herz ist’s, nichts Besonderes. Heben Sie es wieder auf. Ich hab’s geschenkt, ich hab’s zurückgenommen. Es war dort in den Schützengräben. Jetzt ist es hier, ich lache um, ich lache um die schönen Liebsten, die der Tod dahingemäht.
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Translation of title "Les attentives II" = "Wachestehen II"
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- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2020-02-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 49