Il était un chaperon ô mon muguet mon eau ma neige il était un chaperon rouge. Rouge du sang qui sort des veines ô ma jacinthe ma menthe ma verveine à l’instant de la mort du glaive. Et dans le rouge la chair de lait mon écureuil mon œil ma noisette d’une fée intacte de sexe. Mais non point fée, femme déjà mon lilas ma sauge mon or attentive au sang sur la mousse mon amande mon lait mon silex du loup qui dans le conte mon hibou mon taureau mon deuil ne veut que le manger.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alain Borne (1915 - 1962) [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 Lionel Ginoux , "Il était un", 2010 [ soprano and piano ], from Un brasier d’étoiles, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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