Fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau.
Tu as beau, petite sournoise, chantonner
Entre tes berges de cresson ou d'oseille ;
J'aime mieux la chantepleure du tonneau
Ou le glouglou charmeur de la bouteille
Qui coule à deux doigts de mon nez :
Fontaine je ne boirai pas de ton eau.
C'est bon pour les pauvres diables, vraiment,
Pour les jolis canards ou les blanches oies,
Mais moi j'ai une plume de page à mon chapeau
Et des habits brodés de soie
De Prince Charmant :
Fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Le Valet de cœur. Poèmes, deuxième édition, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908, pages 28-29.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Chanson à la fontaine", written 1897-99, appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 1. L'escarpolette, no. 11, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908 [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 Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Chanson à la fontaine" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de ma mère l'Oie, no. 5, Éd. Rouart - Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
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