Tu as tout seul, [Jean-Jean]1, vignes et prés ;
Tu as tout seul ton cœur et ta pécune ;
Tu as tout seul deux logis diaprés,
Là où vivant ne prétend chose aucune ;
Tu as tout seul le fruit de ta fortune ;
Tu as tout seul ton boire et ton repas ;
Tu as tout seul toutes choses, fors d'une :
C'est que tout seul ta femme tu n'as pas.

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Confirmed with La France Littéraire, Tome XXXVIII, Paris, Bureaux de la France Littéraire, 1840, page 69.

¹ Françaix: "Jan-Jan"; Sweelinck: "Ian-Ian"

Text Authorship:

• by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544), no title, written <<1544, appears in Les Épigrammes, in 4. Livre IV [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 Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997), "De jan-jan", 1941, published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from L'adolescence Clémentine, no. 1, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621), "Tu as tout seul", published 1598 [ SSATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in French (Français), [adaptation] ; composed by Clement Janequin.
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• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "On Jan-Jan", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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