The bourree | The feet are less beautiful

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by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909)

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

La bourrée

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Les pieds sont moins beaux
Quand ils sont menus
Ote tes sabots!
J’aime tes pieds nus.

Dansons aux flambeaux
Dans les bois chenus.
Ote tes sabots!
J’aime tes pieds nus.

Les gars sont dispos,
Les maris cornus.
Ote tes sabots!
J’aime tes pieds nus.

Des gens à jabots
D’Arles sont venus…
Ote tes sabots!
J’aime tes pieds nus…

Pour voir aux flambeaux
Tes grands pieds charnus…
Ote tes sabots!
J’aime tes pieds nus…

Les ont trouvé beaux…
Les ont reconnus…
Remets tes sabots!
J’aime tes pieds nus.

Text Authorship:

by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909), "La bourrée", written 1895, appears in La Grive des Vignes, in 4. Dédicaces, Ballet ancien, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Librairie Charpentier, 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 Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "La bourrée", published [1895] [medium voice and piano], from Six chansons à danser, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Choudens [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The bourree", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-12
Line count: 24
Word count: 87

The bourree

Language: English after the French (Français)

The feet are less beautiful
When they are thin
Take off your [shoes]!
I love your bare feet.

We dance by firelight
In the [bare-treed] woods.
Take off your [shoes]!
I love your bare feet.

The guys are ready,
The horned husbands.
Take off your [shoes]!
I love your bare feet.

People with jabots
From Arles have come.
Take off your [shoes]!
I love your bare feet.

To see by firelight
Your large, plump feet
Take off your [shoes]!
I love your bare feet.

They found them beautiful…
They recognized them…
Put back on your [shoes]!
I love your bare feet.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909), "La bourrée", written 1895, appears in La Grive des Vignes, in 4. Dédicaces, Ballet ancien, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Librairie Charpentier, first published 1895
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This text was added to the website: 2019-01-11
Line count: 24
Word count: 101