La vie est courte, la mer est grande. Vois-tu, ma mie, on s'verra guère. J' suis pas un mat'lot à la manque. Y a des calmes plats sur la mer. Faut les subir. La vie si courte, la mer si grande, Ça t'fait peur, Ah! tu n'aimes que moi ! Si tu l'aimais un peu, la mer, tu dirais va, faut la subir. Il faudra bien subir la mort, comme ton amour pour moi, ma mie. La vie si courte, la mer si grande, vois-tu, ma mie, faut les subir. Et la tempête, les calmes plats, et le retard et la distance et le roc-noir, la mer qui s'ouvre où mon bateau s'engloutira, faut les subir. Et notre amour, et ton attente, et l'autre amour qui te viendra.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "La chanson fatale", written 1900, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in L'amour et l'aventure, in L'amour marin, in 8. Les chansons au bord de la mer, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Mercure de France, first published 1900 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 - 1952), "La chanson fatale", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 3, Amsterdam, Éd. Broekmans en Van Poppel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "La Chanson fatale", published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants de la mer et des Villages, no. 4, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henriette Puig-Roget (1910 - 1992), "La Chanson fatale", 1934, published 1935 [ low voice and piano ], from Trois Ballades de Paul Fort, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
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