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Venez fillettes et garçons! Venez tous, garçons et fillettes! Nous répondrons par nos chansons À la chanson des alouettes! Accourez de près et de loin, On a [fauché]1 l'herbe fleurie; Que partout les meules de foin S'amoncèlent dans la prairie! Comme les bras sont pleins d'ardeur! Comme les coeurs sont à la joie! Sentez-vous quelle douce odeur La plaine humide nous envoie? Dans les sentiers, dans les sillons, Ramassez bien chaque brin d'herbe! Du soleil les ardents rayons Mettent de l'or dans chaque gerbe. Et ce soir, avec des chansons, Tout autour d'une meule blonde, Les fillettes et les garçons S'assembleront pour une ronde!
Published in Revue Britannique, 1865.
1 Lalo: "coupé"
Authorship
- by Stella , "La fenaison" [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in English by Robert Nicoll (1814 - 1837), "The making o' the hay"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "La fenaison", 1872, published 1873 [ contralto,pf ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Haying Time", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 20
Word count: 104
Come, little girls and boys, come, all the little girls and boys. Our songs will echo the song of the lark. Hurry along from near and far. They have cut the flowering grass. There are haystacks everywhere in the fields. In the paths, in the furrows, gather every blade of grass. The sun's hot rays put gold in each tuft! How eager the arms, how joyful the hearts! Do you smell the sweet odour rising to us from the damp plain? And tonight the little girls and boys will dance and sing around a haystack!
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2004 by Faith J. Cormier, (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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- a text in French (Français) by Stella , "La fenaison" [an adaptation]
- a text in English by Robert Nicoll (1814 - 1837), "The making o' the hay"
This text was added to the website: 2004-10-04
Line count: 20
Word count: 95