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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

L'Alouette et le vieux hibou
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
À la jeune et vive l'alouette
Ainsi parlait un vieux hibou:
Je viens de perdre ma chouette;
Hou-ou! hou-ou!

Veux-tu devenir mon amante?
Je t'offre ma patte et mon trou,
J'ai l'oeil tendre et la voix charmante;
Hou-ou! hou-ou!

Nous aurons d'un hymen prospère,
Ce que nous prédit le coucou,
Des enfants gais comme leur père,
Hou-ou! hou-ou!

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Auguste-Emmanuel Vaucorbeil (1821 - 1884), "L'Alouette et le vieux hibou" [ low voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "The lark and the old owl", copyright © 1997, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die Lerche und der alte Uhu", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 58

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