Chante mon fou... Manteau vert et rose, Manteau rose et vert ; A sa marotte une rose Et des manches à revers. Chante mon fou.. Révérences à la ronde A princesses ouribauds, Et se rire du monde Sur un escabeau ! Chante mon fou... Chevrote une ballade, Vide un gobelet ; Son doux cœur est malade Mais où meurt Triboulet ? Chante mon fou...
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Confirmed with Poèmes de Bohême, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, 1913, pages 79-80.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Le fou ", written 1913?, appears in Poèmes de Bohême, in 2. Squelettes fleuris, in 2. Interlude de Lieds, no. 1 [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 Roger Vuataz (1898 - 1988), "Le fou", op. 21 no. 3, published 1926 [ high voice and piano ], from Poèmes de Bohême, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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