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De l'ironie contre l'absurdité du monde

Song Cycle by Michèle Reverdy (b. 1943)

1. Les Regrets  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Vu le soin ménager dont travaillé je suis, 
Vu l'importun souci qui sans fin me tourmente, 
Et vu tant de regrets desquels je me lamente, 
Tu t'ébahis souvent comment chanter je puis.

Je ne chante, Magny, je pleure mes ennuis, 
Ou, pour le dire mieux, en pleurant je les chante ; 
Si bien qu'en les chantant, souvent je les enchante : 
Voilà pourquoi, Magny, je chante jours et nuits.

Ainsi chante l'ouvrier en faisant son ouvrage, 
Ainsi le laboureur faisant son labourage, 
Ainsi le pèlerin regrettant sa maison,

Ainsi l'aventurier en songeant à sa dame, 
Ainsi le marinier en tirant à la rame, 
Ainsi le prisonnier maudissant sa prison.

Text Authorship:

  • by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560), no title, appears in Les regrets, no. 12

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2. Interno  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Dal portiere non c'era nessuno
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Sandro Penna (1906 - 1977), written 1927-38), copyright ©

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3. Sylvie and Bruno  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

Bowed to the earth with bitter woe,
Or laughing at some raree-show,
We flutter idly to and fro.

Man's little Day in haste we spend,
And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll

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4. Abend in Marino

Language: German (Deutsch) 
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Text Authorship:

  • by Hans Ulrich Treichel (b. 1952), copyright ©

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5. Ribereňas  [sung text not yet checked]

Subtitle: (Con acompaňamiento de campanas)

Language: Spanish (Español) 
Dicen que tienes cara
(balalín)
de luna llena.
(balalán.)
Cuántas campanas ¿oyes?
(balalín.)
No me dejan.
(¡balalán!)
Pero tus ojos..., ¡Ah!
(balalín)
... perdona, tus ojeras ...
(balalán)
y esa rosa de oro
(balalín)
y esa... no puedo, esa...
(balalán.)

Su duro miriñaque
las campanas golpean.

¡Oh tu encanto secreto!..., tu...
(balalín
lín
lín
lín...)

Dispensa.

Text Authorship:

  • by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Ribereňas", subtitle: "(Con acompañamiento de campanas)", written 1921-1924, appears in Canciones, in Juegos

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Total word count: 246
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