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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Dansez, les petites filles
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Dansez, les petites filles,
Toutes en rond.
En vous voyant si gentilles,
Les bois riront.

Dansez, les petites reines,
Toutes en rond.
Les amoureux sous les frênes
S'embrasseront.

Dansez, les petites belles,
Toutes en rond.
Les bouquins dans les écoles
Bougonneront.

Dansez, les petites belles,
Toutes en rond.
Les oiseaux avec leurs ailes
Applaudiront.

Dansez, les petites fées,
Toutes en rond.
Dansez, de bleuets coiffées,
L'aurore au front.

Dansez, les petites femmes,
Toutes en rond.
Les messieurs diront aux dames
Ce qu'ils voudront.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Chanson de grand-père", appears in L'Art d'être grand-père, in 16. Deux chansons, no. 1, first published 1877 [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 Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Chanson de grand-père", <<1917 [ vocal duet with piano ], from Douze mélodies, 4e série, no. 73, Paris, Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Henri-Jean Clavié (1865 - 1945), "La Chanson de grand-père", published [1924] [ medium voice and piano ], Bordeaux [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gustave Feutry , "La Chanson du grand-père", subtitle: "Ronde", <<1882 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jaap Geraedts (1924 - 2003), "Ronde", published 1953 [ high voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anatole Lionnet (1832 - 1896), "Chanson de Grand-Père", published <<1888 [ vocal duet for mezzo-soprano and soprano with piano ], Paris, Édition Lemoine et Fils [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Chanson de grand-père" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), "Chanson de grand-père", subtitle: "Ronde des petites filles" [ SA chorus and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 20, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Fils [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dagmar de Corval Rybner (1890 - 1965), "Chanson de Grandpere" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (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: 24
Word count: 85

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