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by Antoine Ferrand (1678 - 1719)

Oiseaux, si tous les ans
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  DUT ENG GRE ITA SPA
Oiseaux, si tous les ans
Vous [changez de]1 climats,
Dès que le triste hiver
Dépouille nos bocages;
Ce n'est pas seulement
Pour changer de feuillages,
[Ni]2 pour éviter nos frimats;
Mais votre destinée
Ne vous permet d'aimer,
Qu'à la saison des fleurs.
Et quand elle est passée,
Vous la cherchez ailleurs,
Afin d'aimer toute l'année.

View original text (without footnotes)
1 or "quittez nos"
2 or "Et"

Text Authorship:

  • by Antoine Ferrand (1678 - 1719) [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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Oiseaux, si tous les ans", K. 307 (1778) [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Gij vogels, die elk jaar", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Christie Turnage Turner) , "You birds, so every year", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Daniel Jäger) , "Wo tauscht ihr Vögelein"
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , "Πουλιά, αν πάντοτε", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Uccelli, se sempre ogni anno", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Pilar Lirio) , "Aves, si todos los años", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 57

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