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Rose partons; voici l'aurore: Quitte [des]1 oreillers si doux. Entends-tu la cloche sonore Marquer l'heure du rendez-vous? Cherchons, loin du bruit de la ville, Pour le bonheur un [sûr]2 asile. Viens aux champs couler d'heureux jours; Les champs ont aussi leurs amours! Viens aux champs fouler la verdure; Donne le bras à ton amant; Rapprochons-nous de la nature Pour nous aimer plus tendrement. Des oiseaux la troupe éveillée Nous appelle sous la feuillée. Viens aux champs couler d'heureux jours; Les champs ont aussi leurs amours! Allons visiter des rivages Que tu croiras des bords lointains. Je verrai sous d'épais ombrages Tes pas devenir incertains. [ Le désir cherche un lit de mousse. Le monde est loin, l'herbe est si douce. Viens aux champs couler d'heureux jours; Les champs ont aussi leurs amours! C'en est fait. Adieu, vains spectacles! Adieu, Paris où je me plus, Où les beaux-arts font des miracles, Où la tendresse n'en fait plus! ]3 Rose, dérobons à l'envie Le doux secret de notre vie. Viens aux champs couler d'heureux jours; Les champs ont aussi leurs amours!
M. del Adalid sets stanzas 1, 2, 6 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
M. del Adalid sets stanzas 1, 2, 6 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Berlioz: "ces"
2 Berlioz: "pur"
3 Not set by Gounod.
Authorship
- by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780 - 1857), "Les champs" [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 Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Les champs", published 2009, stanzas 1,2,6 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 20a, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Les champs", published 2009, stanzas 1,2,6 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 20b, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869), "Les champs", op. 19 no. 2 (1834) [ medium voice and piano ], from Feuilles d'album, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jules Bordier (1846 - 1896), "Viens aux champs !", published 1880? [ high voice (tenor) and piano ], from Douze mélodies, no. 8, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Les champs", CG. 356, published 1863 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hippolyte Monpou (1804 - 1841), "Les champs" [ duet ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 32
Word count: 179
Rose, let's go; here's the dawn: Leave [the]1 soft pillows. Do you hear the sonorous bell Tolling the hour of rendezvous? Let's seek out, far from the city's noise, A safe asylum for [our]2 happiness. Come to the fields where flow happy days; The fields also have their loves! Come to the fields to walk on the grass; Offer an arm to your lover; Let's get close to nature In order to love more tenderly. The flock, awakened by birdsong, Calls to us from under the leaves. Come to the fields where flow happy days; The fields also have their loves! Let's go visit the beaches That you may think are far away. I'll see under the thick shadows That your steps become uncertain. [ Desire seeks a bed of moss. The world is far away, the grass is so sweet. Come to the fields where flow happy days; The fields also have their loves! It's done. Goodbye, vain spectacles! Goodbye, Paris where I am too much myself, ]3 Where the Fine Arts work miracles, Where intimacy [can be found] no longer! Rose, let's hide from the envious The sweet secret of our life. Come to the fields where flow happy days; The fields also have their loves!
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Berlioz: "ces" - "these"
2 Berlioz: "pur" - "pure"
3 Not set by Gounod.
Authorship
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2018 by Laura Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in French (Français) by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780 - 1857), "Les champs"
This text was added to the website: 2018-12-09
Line count: 32
Word count: 208