Le marchand de sable a passé, c'est le bon Dieu qui r'mue ses ailes. Il les a tant et tant r'muées, qu'il pleut des petits poux dorés. Poussière redevient poussière, les petits poux sont morts dans l'air. Il en a chu, il en a chu, tout l'long du ciel, sur la terre. Il en a chu dans mes oreilles et dans mes yeux il en a chu. Demain je laverai mes oreilles... Je dors comme un petit Jésus.
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Confirmed with Paul Fort, Ballades françaises, Volume 1, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1897, pages 90-91.
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "Le marchand de sable", written 1895, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in La ronde autour du monde, in 1. Chansons, no. 20, appears in Ballades françaises, in Ballades aux champs, sur la route et devant l'atre, no. 22, first published 1895 [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 Louis Beydts (1896 - 1953), "Le marchand de sable" [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Ballades Françaises de Paul Fort, no. 1, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
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