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Mais Madame écoutez-moi donc Vous perdez quelque chose - C'est mon coeur pas grand-chose Ramassez-le donc Je l'ai donné je l'ai repris Il fut là-bas dans les tranchées Il est ici j'en ris j'en ris Des belles amours que la mort a fauchées
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- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 2 [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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Les attentives II", op. 135 no. 6, from Symphony no. 14, no. 6, also set in Russian (Русский) [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) CAT ENG ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Madame, miri!", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "Madame, look!", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: John Versmoren
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2016-12-19 12:22:43
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Madame, look! You have lost something. It's my heart -- not much of a thing! So pick it up. I have given it, and I have taken it back. It was down there in the trenches. Now it's here and I laugh at them, I laugh at them, at the beautiful loves scythed down by death.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2011 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 2
Text added to the website: 2011-05-22 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:04:23
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Word count: 55