Pastorale | Un jour de printemps

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Pastorale

Language: French (Français) after the French (Français)

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Un jour de printemps,
Tout le long d'un verger
Colin va chantant,
Pour ses maux soulager :
Ma bergère, ma bergère,
tra la la la la la la la la
Ma bergère, laisse-moi 
Prendre un tendre baiser !

La belle, à l'instant
Répond à son berger:
»Tu veux, en chantant
Un baiser dérober?...
Non Colin, non Colin,
Tra la la la la la la la la
Tu voudrais, en chantant 
Prendre un tendre baiser
Non, Colin, ne le prends pas,
Je vais te le donner.

Note: some sources erroneously list the author of the text as "Charles Regnard"

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a text in French (Français) by Jean-François Regnard (1655 - 1709), no title, appears in Le Bal, comédie, Scene 20, a song sung by Merlin, a shepherd, and a chorus, referred to as an 'air Breton' after the song
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Pastorale", op. 21 no. 9 (1868), published 1873 [high voice and piano], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Choudens [ sung text verified 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 83