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by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)

La grenouille américaine
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
La grenouille américaine
Me regarde par-dessus
Ses bésicles du futaine.
Ses yeux sont des grogs massus
Dépourvus de jolitaine.
Je pense à Casadesus
Qui n'a pas fait de musique
Sur cette scène d'amour
Dont le parfum nostalgique
Sort d'une boîte d'Armour.

Argus de table tu gardes
L'âme du crapaud Vanglor
Ô bouillon qui me regardes
Avec tes lunettes d'or.

Text Authorship:

  • by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947) [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 Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925), "La grenouille américaine", 1923, from Ludions, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The American frog", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 59

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