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Une femme qui pleurait
Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des soldats qui passaient
Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Un éclusier qui pêchait
Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Les tranchées qui blanchissaient
Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des obus qui pétaient
Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Des allumettes qui ne prenaient pas
Et tout
A tant changé
En moi
Tout
Sauf mon Amour
Eh ! Oh ! Ha !
Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Mutation", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in Case d'Armons, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Mutation", op. 71 no. 3 (1939), published 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Apollinaire, no. 3, Éd. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Mutation", FP. 140, from Calligrammes, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Zuidam (b. 1964), "Mutation", published 2001 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Mutation", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Veränderung", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Veränderung", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 73
A woman who was crying Eh! Oh! Ha! Soldiers who were passing by Eh! Oh! Ha! A lockkeeper who was fishing Eh! Oh! Ha! The trenches that were turning white Eh! Oh! Ha! Shells that were exploding Eh! Oh! Ha! Matches that were not taking And all Has changed so much In me Everything Except my love. Eh! Oh! Ha!
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2002 by Korin Kormick, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Mutation", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in Case d'Armons, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 60