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by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
Translation by René Morax (1873 - 1963)

Chanson de la Poire
Language: French (Français)  after the Danish (Dansk) 
Our translations:  ENG
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C'est l'histoire
d'une poire
on la cueille
dans les feuilles
on la tape
tant et tant,
qu'elle en claque
en trois temps
d'une attaque
Il faut boire
à la poire
un bon coup.
Il faut boire
et c'est tout.

Text Authorship:

  • by René Morax (1873 - 1963) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Danish (Dansk) by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Chanson de la Poire", H. 63 no. 3 (1926), published 1927 [ soprano, flute, string quartet or voice and piano ], from Trois Chansons de la Petite Sirène, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The song of the pear", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 39

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