Petit bonhomme s'en va-t-au bois
En sautant à cloche-pied
Avec sa couronne de roi
Et son bonnet de papier.
Petit bonhomme traîne sa bosse
Sous son habit de laine
Et rencontre la fée Carabosse
Au bras de Croquemitaine.
Petit bonhomme leur dit bonjour
Fort poliment, ôte sa marotte,
Veut se sauver et court,
Mais Croquemitaine le met dans sa hotte.
Petit bonhomme n'ira plus cueillir la noisette
En sautillant d'un pied léger ;
Le couteau brille, la broche est prête :
Petit bonhomme sera mangé.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Le Valet de cœur, Poèmes, deuxième édition, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908, pages 34-35.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Le petit bonhomme", appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 1. L'escarpolette, no. 14, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908 [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), "Le petit bonhomme", 1914? [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons à la Française, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Le petit bonhomme", published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deuxième recueil de chansons enfantines, no. 9, Paris, Éd Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), "Chanson du petit bonhomme" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de ma mère l'Oie, no. 1, Éd. Rouart - Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882 - 1955), "Petit bonhomme", published 1920 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
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