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Chansons cruelles

Song Cycle by Hans Kox (b. 1930)

3. Chanson cruelle  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Mettez-vous au saule,
là, au bout du pré ;
contre votre épaule
vous le sentirez.

Prenez la cornemuse,
essayez un peu,
si la musique intruse
peut-être nous émeut.

Tant qu'elle nous commande
bien, nous danserons
parmi la lavande,
lui, le forgeron,

et moi, la bergère...
Ne soufflez pas mot.
Si ça vous désespère,
vous pleurerez tantôt !

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Chanson cruelle", appears in Poèmes et Dédicaces

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Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 140.


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