by Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945)
Le bouton d'or
Language: French (Français)
Un beau bateau, chargé jusqu’au sabord De cent millions de boutons d’or, Vient de Chine ou San-Salvador. Le roi Nabuchodonosor Il brait, il mange, il boit, il dort, Il n’aura pas de boutons d’or.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945), "Le bouton d'or ", appears in Chantefables et Chantefleurs, Paris, Éd. Librairie Gründ [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 Wiéner (1896 - 1982), "Le bouton d'or", 1959, published 1959 [ voice and piano ], from Les Chantefleurs, no. 13, Éd. Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
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