Modernized form of the text:

Quand mon mari vient de dehors
Ma rente est d'etre battue ;
Il prend la cuillier du pot,
A la tête il me la rue,
J'ai grand peur qu'il ne me tue ;
C'est un faux villain jaloux
C'est un villain rioteux, gromeleux ;
Je suis jeune et il est vieux.

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Quand mon mari vient de dehors", 1564 [ vocal quintet for 2 tenors, 2 baritones, and bass ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marjan Smit) , "Als mijn man van buiten terugkomt", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (David Wyatt) , "When my old man comes in", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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