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by Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945)

Va‑t’en chez le tailleur
Language: French (Français) 
Va-t’en chez le tailleur
en sifflant le God save the king.
Pour le veston et le smoking
IL FAUT LAISSER DES ARRHES.

Va-t’en chez le fripier des semaines à venir ;
uniforme de pompier,
camisole, froc ou tunique :
à ton goût tu pourras choisir.

Mais les semaines du passé
jamais ne pourront revenir
chez le fripier de ton destin

IL FAUT LAISSER DES ARRHES

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Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Desnos (1900 - 1945), "Il faut laisser des arrhes", written 1919 [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 Guy Sacre (b. 1948), "Va-t'en chez le tailleur", 1985, published 2011 [medium voice and piano], from 3 Poèmes de Robert Desnos, no. 3, Lyon, Édition Symétrie [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-05-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

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