Belle, sous la mauvaise étoile,
Un soir, une dame à vapeurs,
Sur le pont d’un bateau à voiles
Soupirait pour un voyageur.
Mais insensible aux vœux d’un cœur
Il aimait une dame à voile
Au bord d’un navire à vapeur.
Oh! Demoiselles fragiles,
Coquettes des miroirs d’eau,
Voici le port, voici l’île,
Attendez le prochain bateau.
Plus tard, devenue dame à voile,
À bord d’un navire à vapeur,
Elle revit ce voyageur
Blanchi aux feux de son étoile.
Mais il avait perdu son cœur
Sur le pont d’un bateau à voiles
Aux pieds d’une dame à vapeurs.
Oh! Demoiselles fragiles,
Coquettes des miroirs d’eau,
Voici le port, voici l’île,
Attendez le prochain bateau.
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Text Authorship:
- by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969), "Attendez le prochain bateau", appears in Fiançailles pour rire, no. 19, Paris, Éd. Gallimard [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 Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Attendez le prochain bateau", 1940, published 1951 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, no. 3, Paris, Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louise-Marie Simon (1903 - 1990), as Claude Arrieu, "Attendez le prochain bateau", 1944-1945, published 1946 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, no. 2, Éditions Amphion [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Van Parys (1902 - 1971), "Attendez le prochain bateau", 1946?, published 1946 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Philippe Fougères [sung text not yet checked]
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