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by Albert Grimault

Les ailes
Language: French (Français) 
La fauvette a quitté le nid
Vainèment tu la rappelles,
Le couple s'est désuni ;
La fauvette a quitté le nid,
Les oiseaux ont	des ailes !
Les oiseaux ont des ailes !

La fauvette a quitté le nid
Pour des tendresses nouvelles,
Adieu, mois de mai béni,
La fauvette a quitté le nid,
Les amours ont des ailes !
Les amours ont des ailes !

Hélas ! les feuilles ont jauni,
On ne voit plus d'hirondelles,
C'est l'hiver, tout es fini ! 
Ah ! Vide est le cœur comme le nid,
Les serments ont des ailes !
Les serments ont des ailes !

Text Authorship:

  • by Albert Grimault  [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 Louis Diémer (1843 - 1919), "Les ailes", published 1875 [voice and piano], from Vingt Mélodies, no. 7, Paris : Henri Heugel [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-18
Line count: 18
Word count: 94

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