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by Charles Messager (1882 - 1971), as Charles Vildrac

Comme elle a les yeux bandés
Language: French (Français) 
Comme elle a les yeux bandés
Elle a d'abord demandé
Où aller? . . .
Des maquignons qui passaient
Des bagues à tous leurs doigts
On entouré ses poignets
De leur fouet
Elle est partie avec eux
Et ils ont coupé pour eux
Ses cheveux
Et ils l'ont gardée depuis 
Dans l'enceinte qui est faite de leurs ventres
Il ne faut pas la maudire
Vous tous qui supputez ses sourires
Elle ignore où elle va
A ses poignets les cuirs gras lui font mal
C'est le bandeau . . . le bandeau . . .
Oh! derrière ce bandeau
Ses yeux peut être sont beaux et pleins d'eau
Qu'on arrache le noir [scel]1
Et nous la verrons . . . qui sait?
Avec des yeux de pucelle
Donner du pain aux moineaux

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1 [sic]; perhaps "scellé" is intended?

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Messager (1882 - 1971), as Charles Vildrac, appears in Livre d'Amour [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 Jacques François Antoine Ibert (1890 - 1962), "Comme elle a les yeux bandés", 1921, published 1923 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois Chansons de Charles Vildrac, no. 3, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 23
Word count: 133

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