Mort ! le vent pleure autour du monde. Vie ! autour du monde le vent rit. -- Aimons-nous vite, aimons- nous tous, depêchons-nous, le vent nous pousse. Or, si ta traine est le vent, Mort ! et que ses franges te balaient, Vie ! -- aimons-nous vite, aimons-nous tous, dépechons-nous, le vent nous pousse. Vie ! tu nous pousses vers la Mort. Mort ! tu nous pousses vers la Vie. -- Aimons-nous donc, aimons-nous tous, s'il faut toujours qu'on se retrouve.
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Confirmed with Paul Fort, Ballades françaises: La ronde autour du monde, E. Flammarion, 1922, p.30
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "Le vent nous pousse", appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in La ronde autour du monde, first published 1922 [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 Eva Ruth Spalding (1882 - 1969), "Le vent nous pousse", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Senart [sung text not yet checked]
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