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by Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945)

Les hiboux
Language: French (Français) 
Ce sont les mères des hiboux
Qui désiraient chercher les poux
De leurs enfants, leurs petits choux,
En les tenant sur les genoux.

Leurs yeux d'or valènt des bijoux
Leur bec est dur comme cailloux,
Ils sont doux comme des joujoux,
Mais aux hiboux point de genoux!

Votre histoire se passait où?
Chez les Zoulous? Les Andalous?
Ou dans la cabane bambou?
A Moscou? Ou à Tombouctou?
En Anjou ou dans le Poitou?
Au Pérou ou chez des Mandchous?

Hou! Hou!
Pas du tout, c'était chez les fous.

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945) [author's text not yet checked 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 Wiéner (1896 - 1982), "Les hiboux", 1955 [voice and piano], from Trente Chantefables pour les Enfants Sages, no. 28, confirmed with a concert programme booklet [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-02-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 88

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