LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,109)
  • Text Authors (19,482)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Louise Ladmirault

Berceuse Créole
 (Sung text for setting by P. Ladmirault)
 Matches base text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Des grandes ombres se forment
Dans le bois des lataniers
Les petits oiseaux s'endorment
Faites comme eux chers ramiers.

On n'entend plus dans les branches
Leur merveilleux gazoullis
Toutes les têtes se penchent
Ils dorment les bengalis.

Les doux zéphyrs les balancent
en agitant les bambous,
Et l'harmonieux silence
Les bercera comme vous!

Reposez si tout sommeille
Dans les bois sur les côteaux. 
Notre amour est là qui veille. 
Dormez bien petits oiseaux.

Composition:

    Set to music by Paul Ladmirault (1877 - 1944), "Berceuse Créole" [ voice, violin or flute, and piano ], Éd. E. Gallet

Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Ladmirault

Go to the general single-text view

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Creole Lullaby", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 73

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris