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by Octave Pradels (1842 - 1930)

Auprès de ma mie
Language: French (Français) 
Si j'étais l'oiseau léger
Des forêts sauvages,
Ah! je voudrais voyager
Sur tous les rivages.

J'irais sous le ciel heureux,
Où Golconde est reine
Tremper mon aile aux flots bleus
De la mer sereine.

Ivre de ciel azuré 
Et de poésie,
Par les airs j'irais augré
De ma fantaisie.

Mais non, je n'ai pas souci 
De lointaine grève,
Je veux vivre près d'ici
Mon fol et doux rêve,

Car je n'ai qu'un seul désir
Et ma seule envie
C'est d'écouter à loisir
Le chant de ma mie.

Text Authorship:

  • by Octave Pradels (1842 - 1930) [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 Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944), "Auprès de ma mie", published 1888. [medium voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 87

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