LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Le roi s'en va‑t'en chasse
Language: French (Français) 
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse,
Dans le bois des Bourbons,
Mon aimable bergère,
Dans les bois des Bourbons,
Bergère Nanon.

Ne trouve rien en chase,
Ni cailles, ni pigeons,
Mon aimable bergère,
Ni cailles, ni pigeons,
Bergère Nanon.

Rencontre une bergère
Qui dormait dans les joncs,
Mon aimable bergère,
Qui dormait dans les joncs,
Bergère Nanon.

"Voulez vous être reine,
Dedans mes beaux donjons?
Mon aimable bergère,
Dedans mes beaux donjons,
Bergère Nanon?

"Vous aurez des carrosses
Et de l'or à faison,
Mon aimable bergère,
Et de l'or à faison,
Bergère Nanon.

"Et cour de grandes dames,
De ducs et de barons,
Mon aimable bergère,
De ducs et de barons,
Bergère Nanon."

"Merci, merci, beau Sire,
Mais j'aime un pauv' garçon,
Qui aime sa bergère,
Mais j'aime un pauv' garçon,
Qui aime Nanon!"

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs)  [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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse", 1946, published 1946, orchestrated 1948 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 2 - chansons populaires, no. 4, Boosey & Hawkes, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Iris Holland Rogers (d. 1982) , copyright © 1946 ; composed by Benjamin Britten.
      • Go to the text.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-12-03
Line count: 35
Word count: 133

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris