Winter, Ihr seid ein rechter Bösewicht;

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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Translation © by Linda Godry

Yver, vous n'estes qu'un vilain

(Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG ENG FIN GER

Yver, vous n'estes qu'un vilain;
Esté est plaisant et gentil
En témoing de may et d'avril 
Qui l'accompaignent soir et main.

Esté revet champs, bois et fleurs
De sa livrée de verdure
Et de maintes autres couleurs
Par l'ordonnance de nature.

Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plein 
De nège, vent, pluye et grézil.
On vous deust banir en éxil.
Sans point flater je parle plein,
Yver, vous n'estes qu'un vilain.

Composition:

Claude Achille Debussy

Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans

Text Authorship:

by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), title 1: "Rondeau CCCXXXIII", title 2: "Chanson LXXXII", written 1431

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Winter, You're Naught but a Rogue", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Winter, Ihr seid ein rechter Bösewicht;

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Debussy)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Winter, Ihr seid ein rechter Bösewicht;
Der Sommer ist vergnüglich und angenehm
Wie man am Mai und April wohl sehen kann
Sowohl am Tage, wie bei Nacht.
Der Sommer kleidet Feld, Wald und Blumen
Wiedrum in ihr grünes Gewand,
schmückt auch mit vielen anderen Farben
Wie es die Natur befiehlt.
Aber Ihr, Winter, plagt uns mit zuviel
Schnee, Wind, Regen und Graupel.
Man sollte Euch von hier verbannen.
Ohne Schmeichelei sag' ich's wie es ist,
Winter, Ihr seid ein rechter Bösewicht!

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