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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Rataplan
Language: French (Français) 
Rataplan, tambour habile,
Rataplan rataplan rataplan,
Rataplan matin et soir,
Rataplan plan par la ville,
Rataplan plan plan plan plan
Je vais toujours tambour battant,
Je vais touhours tambour battant,
Tambour battant, tambour battant.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Ran plan plan pataplan pataplan
Ran pataplan ran pataplan pataplan plan plan
Pataplan pataplan
Ran pataplan pataplan pataplan.

Aux plaines de pyramides
J'ai mené, tambour battant,
Ran pataplan pataplan pataplan,
Les francais de gloire avides,
À la victoire enchantant;
Mais au sort toujours docile,
Me voilà dans mes foyers,
Devenu tambour de ville de tambour de grenadiers,
De tambour de grenadiersde grenadiers.

Tambourinant sans relâche, 
Soir matin et jour et nuit,
Ran pataplan pataplan pataplan,
J'ai fait il faut qu'on le sache
Dans ce monde bien du bruit;
Dans l'autre monde j'espère,
De venir illustre aussi,
Si je puis encore faire
Même bruit qu'en celui-ci,
Même bruit qu'en celui-ci, qu'en celui-ci.

Et quand de quitter la terre 
Enfin ce sera mon tour,
Ran pataplan pataplan pataplan,
Je desire qu'on m'enterre
À côté de mon tambour;
Quand des anges les trompettes
Sonneront le jugement,
Je pourrai de mes baguettes
Faire un accompagnement,
Faire un accompagnement,
Plan plan plan plan.

Note: adapted from "Tambour de Ville" by Robert-de-Rigoulène


Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Maria Felicia Garcia Malibran (1808 - 1836), "Rataplan", subtitle: "Chansonette", published c1828 [ voice and piano ], from Album Lyrique, no. 6, from Matinées musicales: album lyrique, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Troupenas [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 43
Word count: 193

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