Song at Dawn | A fiancé under the balcony of his fiancée

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by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Aubade

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Un fiancé sous le balcon de sa fiancée
Ne dormez pas, belle endormie.
Écoutez la voix de votre bien-aimé.
Il pince un rigaudon.
Comme il vous aime !
C'est un poète.
L'entendez-vous ?
Il ricane, peut-être ?
Non : il vous adore, douce Belle !
Il repince un rigaudon et un rhume.
Vous ne voulez l'aimer ?
Pourtant, c'est un poète, un vieux poète !

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925) [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 Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925), "Aubade", 1915, published 1916 [ piano ], from Avant-dernières pensées, no. 2, note: the text comes from remarks written in the score [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Song at Dawn", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 58

Song at Dawn

Language: English after the French (Français)

A fiancé under the balcony of his fiancée:
“Don’t sleep, sleeping beauty.
Listen to the voice of your best beloved.” 
He plucks out a lively rigaudon tune.
How he loves you!
He’s a poet.
Do you hear him?
He’s snickering, perhaps?
No: he adores you, sweet Beauty!
He plucks out a lively rigaudon tune and [gets] a cold.
You don’t want to listen to it?
And yet, he’s a poet, an old soul!

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a text in French (Français) by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925)
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This text was added to the website: 2023-10-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 73