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by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944)

Chanson bretonne
 (Sung text for setting by F. Poulenc)
 Matches base text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
J'ai perdu ma poulette
Et j'ai perdu mon chat.
Je cours à la poudrette
Si Dieu me les rendra.

Je vais chez Jean le Coz
Et chez Marie Maria.
Va-t'en voir chez Hérode
Peut-être il le saura.

Passant devant la salle
Toute la ville était là
À voir danser ma poule
Avec mon petit chat.

Tous les oiseaux champêtres
Sur les murs et sur les toits
Jouaient de la trompette
Pour le banquet du roi.

First published in the revue Commerce, no. 22, Winter 1929, as the second of a collection of poems titled "Morven Le Gaëlique- Poèmes", and then later in Chants Bretons et inédits signés Morven le Gaélique, Paris, Éd. NRF Gallimard, 1953.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Chanson bretonne", FP 59 no. 1 (1931), published 1932 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Max Jacob, no. 1, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle

Text Authorship:

  • by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), "Chanson", written 1926?, appears in Chants Bretons et inédits signés Morven le Gaélique, first published 1929

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Breton song", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Bretonisches Lied", copyright © 2015, (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: 16
Word count: 75

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