Au premier son des cloches : "C'est Jésus dans sa crèche …" Les cloches ont redoublé : "Ô gué, mon fiancé !" Et puis c'est tout de suite la cloche des trépassés.
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Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "La vie", written 1895, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in La ronde autour du monde, in 1. Chansons, no. 51, first published 1895 [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 Gabriel Pierné (1863 - 1937), "La vie", 1921, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ballades Françaises de Paul Fort, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Stuart Price
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