Quand j'entendais les cloches -- beau temps il y a, mon Dieu ! -- ça m'coulait comme eau fraîche tout le long de mon dos, et j'sautais, j'frétillais, et j'riais, j'étais gaie... Et maintenant que je suis une vieille petite mère sourde, quand je vois brimbaler la cloche neuve au clocher, je m'alourde, j'suis à terre, et j'frissonne, et j'sanglote... j'crai qu' j'entends en mon cœur sonner la vieille cloche.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "Le dit de la pauvre vieille", appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in Complaintes et Dits, first published 1913 [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 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865 - 1950), "Le dit de la pauvre vieille", copyright © 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Rondes et ballades françaises, no. 6, Genève : Édition Henn [sung text not yet checked]
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