If you cry sometimes

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by Georges Ville (flourished c1930)

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Si quelquefois tu pleures

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Si quelquefois tu pleures, 
Cherche-moi près de toi, 
 J’y serai.

Mais aux divines heures 
De ta joie, est-ce moi 
 Qui viendrai ?

Oh ! Va, sois rassurée ! 
Quand la dernière larme 
 Aura lui,

Comme une ombre égarée 
Que le grand jour alarme, 
 J’aurai fui.

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Text Authorship:

by Georges Ville (flourished c1930), "Présence", appears in L'Oiseleur de chimères, chansons et poèmes, in 2. Le voyage accablé, no. 15, Paris, Librairie Véga, first published c1906 [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 Jules Mazellier (1879 - 1959), "Présence" [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Le livre chantant, no. 4, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Elbert Migot (1891 - 1976), "Si quelquefois tu pleures", 1931-1932, published 1934 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux chants sur des poèmes de Georges Ville, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937), "Si quelquefois tu pleures", op. 55 (Deux mélodies) no. 2 (1935), published 1936, first performed 1936 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-05-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 42

If you cry sometimes

Language: English after the French (Français)

If you cry sometimes,
Look for me near you,
I will be there.

But in the divine hours
Of your joy, is it I
Who will come?

Oh! There, there, be comforted!
When the last tear
Has shone,

Like a lost shadow
Which the great day startles,
I will have fled.

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Translations of title(s):
"Présence" = "Presence"
"Si quelquefois tu pleures" = "If you cry sometimes"

Text Authorship:

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a text in French (Français) by Georges Ville (flourished c1930), "Présence", appears in L'Oiseleur de chimères, chansons et poèmes, in 2. Le voyage accablé, no. 15, Paris, Librairie Véga, first published c1906
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This text was added to the website: 2020-04-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 51