In a pit like a bear

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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Dans une fosse comme un ours

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promène
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaîne
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promène

Dans la cellule d'à côté
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geôlier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'à côté
On y fait couler la fontaine

D. Shostakovich sets stanza 2

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Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1911, appears in Alcools, in À la Santé, no. 3, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, 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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "À la Santé n°3", 1939 [ voice and piano ], from À la Santé, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Dans une fosse comme un ours", 1961, first performed 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from À la Santé, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "À la Santé", op. 135 no. 7, from Symphony no. 14, no. 7, title in English: "In the Santé jail", also set in Russian (Русский)
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) , copyright © ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
RUS Russian (Русский) (Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov) , copyright ©

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In a pit like a bear

Language: English after the French (Français)

In a pit like a bear,
I stroll every morning,
round and round and round again.
The sky is blue like a chain.
In a pit like a bear,
I stroll every morning.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1911, appears in Alcools, in À la Santé, no. 3, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913
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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-22
Line count: 6
Word count: 33