Je ne sais pas où va la feuille morte Qui danse et tourne au gré du vent Qui l'emporte, Et pourtant Je la suis longtemps des yeux en rêvant. Je ne sais pas quelle main A laissé tomber une rose froissée Sur le chemin, Et pourtant je me suis baissé Pour la ramasser. Je ne sais pas quelle amoureuse chante ainsi Dans son jardin un air moqueur, Et pourtant me voici Triste à mourir, et le souci Fait éclater mon cœur.
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Schéhérazade, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, 1903, pages 30-31.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Chanson triste", written 1903, appears in Schéhérazade, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1903 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "Chanson triste", op. 89 no. 2 (1944) [ voice and piano ], from Shéhérazade, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Je ne sais pas où va la feuille morte", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 2ème volume, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Ponzio , "Chanson triste", published [1912] [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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