Cette fille, elle est morte, elle est morte dans ses amours. Ils l'ont portée en terre, en terre au point du jour. Ils l'ont couchée toute seule, toute seule en ses atours. Ils l'ont couchée toute seule, toute seule en son cerceuil. Ils sont rev'nus gaîment, gaîment avec le jour. Ils ont chanté gaîment, gaîment : « Chacun son tour. « Cette fille, elle est morte, est morte dans ses amours.» Ils sont allés aux champs, aux champs comme tous les jours....
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- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "La fille morte dans ses amours", appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in La ronde autour du monde, in 1. Chansons, no. 3, first published 1913 [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 Adolphe Biarent (1871 - 1916), "Des «Ballades au hameau»" [ voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Cette fille, elle est morte", op. 21 (1916) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Gil-Marchex (1894 - 1970), "Cette fille, elle est morte", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Paris: Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "La fille morte", published 1927 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois ballades françaises, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "La Fille morte dans ses amours", published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants de la mer et des Villages, no. 10, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertus van Lier (1906 - 1972), "La Fille Morte", 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yves Nat (1890 - 1956), "Cette fille, elle est morte", 1919, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons à Païney, 1er recueil, no. 3, Éd. Albert Zunz Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcelle Soulage (1894 - 1970), "Ballade", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], Paris : Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880 - 1971), "Cette fille", subtitle: "Balades au hameau", op. 4 (Seis canciones) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874 - 1953), "Des ballades aux hameau", published 1926, from Deux Chansons, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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