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Babillarde, qui toujours viens Le sommeil et songe troubler Qui me fait heureux et content, Babillarde aronde, tais-toi. Babillarde aronde, veux-tu Que de mes gluaux affutés Je te fasse choir de ton nid ? Babillarde aronde, tais-toi. Babillarde aronde, veux-tu Que coupant ton aile et ton bec Je te fasse pis que Térée ? Babillarde aronde, tais-toi. Si ne veux te taire, crois-moi, Je me vengerai de tes cris, Punissant ou toi ou les tiens. Babillarde aronde, tais-toi. Crie contre tel qui heureux En amour, veillant, à coeur soûl De sa belle prend le plaisir. Babillarde aronde, tais-toi. Ne sois curieuse sur moi Qui ne puis jouir que dormant Et ne suis heureux qu'en songeant Babillarde aronde, tais-toi.
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Text Authorship:
- by Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589), "Babillarde, qui toujours viens", appears in Chansonnettes [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 Madeleine Bloy-Souberbielle (1897 - 1990), "Chansonnette", 1948, published 2014 [ soprano and piano ], from Deux Mélodies, no. 2, Sampzon, Éd. Delatour [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "Babillarde, qui toujours viens", 1953 [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcelle Soulage (1894 - 1970), "Babillarde", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], Paris : Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "You chatterbox who always comes", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2011-03-09
Line count: 24
Word count: 116
You chatterbox who always comes To disturb the sleep and dreams Which make me happy and at peace, Chattering swallow, be quiet! Chattering swallow, do you want Me, with my sharp limed twigs, To make you fall from your nest? Chattering swallow, be quiet! Chattering swallow, do you want Me to cut off your wing and beak, To do to you worse than Tereus1 did? Chattering swallow, be quiet! If you won't be quiet, believe me, I shall avenge myself for your calling, By punishing you or your family. Chattering swallow, be quiet! Shout at someone who, fortunate In love, is lying awake, his heart surfeited, Taking pleasure with his beloved. Chattering swallow, be quiet! Don't be curious about me Who cannot be happy unless asleep And who am not happy except in dreams. Chattering swallow, be quiet!
1 Tereus raped his wife's sister then cut out her tongue to stop her telling; in the end she was turned into a nightingale and the wife, Procne, into a swallow.
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Based on:
- a text in Middle French by Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589), "Babillarde, qui toujours viens", appears in Chansonnettes
This text was added to the website: 2013-05-07
Line count: 24
Word count: 139