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by Séverin Faust (1872 - 1945), as Camille Mauclair

Les trois filles allèrent danser au...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Les trois filles allèrent danser au clair de lune,
La blonde, la châtaine et la brune.

Parut le Diable et leur dit:
Dansez pour moi cette nuit.

Allez, nous n'aurons pas peur 
De danser pour vous, Monseigneur,

Le première dansa en levant les bras,
La seconde fit tournoyer ses cheveux,
Mais ce fut la troisième
Qui dansa le mieux.

Dit de Diable: Vous dansez si bien
Que vous reviendrez demain.

La nuit suivante elles dansèrent,
Bien d'autres nuits entières,
Devinrent trois sorcières.

Et quand on passe dans le bois
On entend leurs voix ...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Séverin Faust (1872 - 1945), as Camille Mauclair, "Ronde", appears in Sonatines d'automne, in Historiettes au crépuscule, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Librairie académique Perrin, first published 1894 [author's text not yet checked 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 Carol Bérard (1881 - 1942), "Ronde", 1907?, published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Bloch (1880 - 1959), "Ronde", B. 30 no. 3 (1903), published 1904 [ high voice and piano ], from Historiettes au crépuscule, no. 3, Éd. E. Demets [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956), "Les trois sorcières", 1893, published 1894 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes chantés, no. 12, Éd. H. Tellier [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 93

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