Il faut nous aimer sur terre. Il faut nous aimer vivants. Ne crois pas au cimetière. Il faut nous aimer avant. Ma poussière et ta poussière deviendront le gré des vents.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "Il faut nous aimer", written 1925, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in Fantômes de chaque jour, Éd. Flammarion, first published 1925 [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 Hubeau (1917 - 1992), "Il faut nous aimer", published 1942 [ medium voice and orchestra or piano ], from Quatre Chansons de Paul Fort, no. 1, Éd. Pierre Noël [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henriette Puig-Roget (1910 - 1992), "Il faut nous aimer sur terre", 1933, published 1934 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre Ballades de Paul Fort, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
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