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by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944)

C'est pour aller au bal
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
C’est pour aller au bal,
au bal, au bal, au baïkal allah!
au bal allah à la balalaïka

Rades du tyran
terre du Levant
Baron du devant tirades

nomme azur ce que
la dame mazurke
je t’assure que
cette danse est turque nomades

Est-ce bal à bord
Est-ce bu en bottes
on chante un foxtrotte
les phoques se trottent
faux nègres et, fausses notes

Escouade
Pars à des requins
que fait Arlequin
Pars en rat, pas rare sequin
repas rare Parade

C’est pour aller au bal,
au bal, au bal, au baïkal allah!
au bal allah à la balalaïka

Text Authorship:

  • by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), appears in Ballades, first published 1938 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "C'est pour aller au bal", FP. 22 no. 2 [ baritone and woodwinds ], from Quatre poèmes de Max Jacob, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "It’s time to go to the ball", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-01-04
Line count: 23
Word count: 99

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