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by Xavier de Maistre, Comte (1763 - 1852)
Translation Singable translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Je suis triste, je m'inquiète
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
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Je suis triste, je m'inquiète,
Je ne sais plus que devenir.
Mon [bon]1 ami devait venir,
Et je l'attends ici seulette.
  Hai luli, hai luli,
[Qu'il fait donc triste sans mon ami]2 !

Je m'assieds pour filer ma laine, 
[Le fil]3 se casse dans ma main :
Allons ! je filerai demain, 
Aujourd'hui je suis trop en peine.
  Hai luli, hai luli, 
[Où peut donc être mon ami]4 ?

[ ... ]

[Ah ! s'il est vrai qu'il soit volage]7,
[S'il doit un jour m'abandonner]8,
Le village n'a qu'à brûler
Et moi-même avec le village !
  Hai luli, hai luli,
À quoi bon vivre [sans ami]9 ?

A. Coquard sets stanzas 1, 5-6
P. Viardot-García sets stanzas 1-2, 6
N. Reber sets stanzas 1-2, 5-6
C. Banck sets stanzas 1-2, 6

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Confirmed with André le Breton, Le Roman Français au Dix-neuvième Siècle: première partie, avant Balzac, Genève-Paris: Slatkine Reprints, 1982, pages 227-228; also confirmed with Œuvres de Xavier de Maistre, Nouvelle Édition, Tours : Cattier, 1876, pages 233-235 (the last stanza shown above is not in this edition). We have omitted the spoken text between the sung parts shown above, taken from a conversation between Kascambo and Ivan.

Note: Coquard and Viardot-García spell "Hai luli" with an umlaut over the first 'i' : "Haï luli!"

1 Banck: "doux"
2 Coquard: "Ah, qu'il fait triste sans mon ami"; Reber: "Qu'il fait triste sans son ami"; Viardot-García: "Où donc peut être mon ami"
3 Banck: "Elle"
4 Viardot-García: "Qu'il fait triste sans son ami"
5 Coquard, Reber: "Et l'ingrat"
6 in the 1876 edition of Maistre's works: "Et vainement je me lamente."
7 Viardot-García: "Si jamais il devient volage"
8 Banck: "Que loin il veuille s'en aller"
9 Viardot-García: "sans son ami"

Text Authorship:

  • by Xavier de Maistre, Comte (1763 - 1852), no title, written 1825?, appears in Les Prisonniers du Caucase, Paris, Éd. Dondey-Dupré père et fils, Ponthieu libraire, first published 1825

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

  • ENG English (David Bamberger) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 36
Word count: 205

Die Verlassene
 (Sung text for setting by C. Banck)
 See base text
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
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In den Augen mir Tränen hangen,
ich weiß nicht, was noch werden soll.
O mein Geliebter, kommst du wohl?
Ich harre dein voll Angst und Bangen!
Hai luli, hai luli!
Werde mein, sonst sterb' ich früh!

So will ich stets die Spindel drehen,
doch reißt der Faden mir entzwei;
es sei die Arbeit heut' vorbei,
weil ich vor Bangen möcht' vergehen.
Hai luli, hai luli!
O weile nicht, sonst sterb' ich früh!

 ... 

Ha, wenn er einst mich wollte meiden,
von einer Ander'n Lieb' erfleh'n,
so mag das Dorf in Flammen steh'n,
und in den Flammen will ich scheiden!
Hai luli, hai luli!
Ach, ohne Liebe sterb' ich früh!

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,6 of the original text.

Composition:

    Set to music by Carl Banck (1809 - 1889), "Die Verlassene", published 1837, stanzas 1-2,6
        Score: https://www.musiconn.de/musiconnsearch/Search2Record/bsb00139481 [external link]

Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Xavier de Maistre, Comte (1763 - 1852), no title, written 1825?, appears in Les Prisonniers du Caucase, Paris, Éd. Dondey-Dupré père et fils, Ponthieu libraire, first published 1825
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Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2026-07-29
Line count: 36
Word count: 108

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