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L'amour est un oiseau rebelle Que nul ne peut apprivoiser Et c'est bien en vain qu'on l'appelle S'il lui convient de refuser Rien n'y fait, menace ou prière L'un parle bien, l'autre se tait : Et c'est l'autre que je préfère Il n'a rien dit mais il me plaît L'amour! L'amour est enfant de Bohême Il n'a jamais, jamais connu de loi Si tu ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi ! Si tu ne m’aimes pas Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime ! Mais, si je t’aime Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi ! L'oiseau que tu croyais surprendre Battit de l'aile et s'envola ... L'amour est loin, tu peux l'attendre Tu ne l'attends plus, il est là ! Tout autour de toi, vite, vite Il vient, s'en va, puis il revient... Tu crois le tenir, il t'évite Tu crois l'éviter, il te tient L'amour!
Text Authorship:
- by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) [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 Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Habañera", first performed 1875 [mezzo-soprano and orchestra], from the opera Carmen [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , "Η αγάπ’ είν’ απ’ το νόμο έξω", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Christakis Poumbouris
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-02
Line count: 26
Word count: 147
Ein’ astato puli ē agapē Pu den tha exēmerōthei, Mēn tēn kaleis, an ein’ pheugatē Ki an tēn boleyei n’ arnēthei. M’ apeilē ē parakalio, Logia polla ē ligosta, Tha dialexō egō ton allo Pu ’n’ arestos, ki as den mila. L'amour! Ē agap’ ein’ ap’ to nomo exō, San tōn tsinganōn to paidi. Ki as den me agapas, se thelō, Ki an se thelō, na phylachtheis! Ki as den me agapas, Ki as den me agapas, se thelō! M’ an se pothēsō, Na se zēsō, na phylachtheis! Dokimase kai kratēse tēn, Phterokopa kai pa’ makria. Oso ki an thes, perimene tēn Ki an tēn xechaseis, kartera. Me sbeltada se gyrophernei, Edō ki ekei, ki edō xana … Tharreis tēn kratas, ma su pheygei, Tharreis glitōneis, se krata. L'amour!
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Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from French (Français) to Greek (Ελληνικά) copyright © 2015 by Christakis Poumbouris, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-02
Line count: 26
Word count: 129