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by Sabine Mancel

Le roi d'Avignon
Language: French (Français) 
J'ai cueilli des anémones
Et des coqu'licots :
J'en veux faire une couronne,
Dansez, mes agneaux !
J'y mettrai de la dentelle
Avec des rubans,
Pour l'offrir à la plus belle ...
Dansez, mes enfants !

La Belle a mis sur sa tête 
Le chapeau fleuri :
C’est la reine de la fête ...
Dansez mes chéris !
Belle, mettez-vous en route, 
Car au Pays d’or 
Le Roi pense à vous sans doute ... 
Dansez, mes trésors !

La Belle a fait le voyage ;
Le Roi d’Avignon 
Lui parle un tendre langage ... 
Dansez mes mignons!
O ma Reine, je vous aime:
Prenez pour toujours
Mon cœur et mon diadème ... 
Dansez, mes amours!

Text Authorship:

  • by Sabine Mancel  [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 Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Le roi d'Avignon", from Premier recueil de chansons d'enfants, Paris, Éd Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English [singable] (R. H. Elkin) , "The King and the Queen"


Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-06-10
Line count: 24
Word count: 103

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