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by Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

Translation © by Leonard Lehrman

Souvent j'ai dit à mon mari: Nous en...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Souvent j'ai dit à mon mari: Nous en prenons un?
Et il me dit: Ah non, non, ma pauvre femme. Notre
petit moment pour jouer est passé. Je ne peux rien 
faire que de rester dans [ma]¹ chaise en faisant des 
grimaces, et ça fait trembler plus que ça ne fait rire un 
petit enfant.

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• D. Diamond

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¹ Diamond: "une"

Text Authorship:

by Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923), no title [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 David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005), "Souvent j'ai dit à mon mari", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Leonard Lehrman) , "Often I have said to my husband", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Often I have said to my husband

Language: English after the French (Français)

Often I have said to my husband: Shall we get one?
And he says to me: No, my poor dear wife. Our 
little moment to play has passed. I can no longer 
do anything but sit in a chair making 
faces. And that would cause a little child to tremble 
more than to laugh.

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