Si je pouvais être un oiseau !

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Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Potessi diventare un uccellino!

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE

Potessi diventare un uccellino!
Avessi l' ale e potessi volare! --
Vorrei volare in mezzo al bel giardino
Dove sta lo mio amore a lavorare.
E gli vorrei volare intorno intorno,
E ci vorrei restar la notte e il giorno.

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Confirmed with Canti popolari toscani, corsi, illirici, greci raccolti e illustrati da N. Tommaseo, Volume 1, Venezia, Giroloma Tasso, 1841, page 144.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [author's text checked 2 times 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 Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Potessi diventare" [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies et une Havanaise variée à 2 voix, no. 5, Éd. Henri Heugel 'Au Ménestrel', also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in French (Français), a translation by Victor Wilder (1835 - 1892) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2016-07-11
Line count: 6
Word count: 39

Si je pouvais être un oiseau !

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Si je pouvais être un oiseau !
J'aurais des ailes et je pourrais voler !
Je voudrais voler au milieu du jardin
Où se tient mon amour au travail.  (ruio -> mio)
Et je voudrais voler tout autour, tout autour,
Et je voudrais y rester la nuit et le jour.

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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This text was added to the website: 2016-07-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 48