Lyr Req: Nuages (Django Reinhardt)

Subject: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 11 Apr 99 - 06:43 PM

Hi Folks, my friend Tony Quarrington (Toronto's finest guitarist) is visiting and asked whether any mudcatters might be familiar with the song "Nuages" and especially a set of lyrics that were written for it. "The bluest kind of blues" would appear to be the title, but searches have come up blank. Being a huge Django fan, I volunteered to steer it out to our community. Any ideas? Thanks

Rick

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Dave T
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 05:29 PM

Rick,
I, too am a huge Django fan, and was surprised to hear that there were any lyrcis to "Nuages" (I'm listening to the song right now actually). I'll ask around to see what I can find out.
BTW the version I've got is from the 2 CD set "Peche a la Mouche";highly recommended to any Django fans.

Dave T

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 09:00 AM

thanks Dave. I'd pretty well given up hope on this one, but Tony swears the lyrics exist. He's having a Django style guitar built for him at the moment and wants to surprise everyone by singing Nuages.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 09:57 AM

Just done a song title check on a record site- no likely vocalists except, improbably, British blues shouter & jazz singer George Melly: it is listed as a track on his double cassette "Scouse Mouse": I've seen him live many times & have many of his records (not this one)but have never heard him sing it, but this does suggest that lyrics exist. Steph (Grapelli) was known to sing occasionally but I doubt he'd have sung that. Someone like Lambert/Hendricks & Ross who used to put lyrics to instrumentals would be more likely. Sorry if i've only confused matters!

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 12:00 PM

George Melly? Great, I'll pass it on to Tony. Thanks so much

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 07:57 PM

Was helping my 12 year son out on a school project on Jazz musicians a few weeks ago, and suggested that he do it on Django. I found the sheet music for Nuages on the Web, which he incorporated as a type of background wallpaper. Before you get too excited, I don't believe that it had lyrics, but I'll try and find it again. Maybe the Django site owner could help with your query. I'll try and let you know.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 11:44 PM

thanks John, the words really seem obscure. I hope if we find them, they're at least well written.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 03:44 AM

Rick, Bad news! I've re-examined all the URL's in my history file, re-visited the sites (I'd forgotten how many I found) and reviewed the contents. No luck ...sorry!

Regards
John

Subject: Lyr Add: PRISONNIER DES NUAGES (Claude Nourago)
From: Peter T.
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 01:56 PM

Dear Rick,

This may be a wild goose chase, but there is a well known French chanteur called Claude Nourago who does a lot of jazz inspired material. He wrote a song called: "Prisonnier des Nuages" on his album Chansongs (which I have not heard). A Web search turns up the lyrics:

Je suis prisonnier des nuages
Vous me direz : "Comment ça s'fait ?"
Je suis prisonnier des nuages
De fumée
Renaître enfant, c'est de mon âge
Déjà tout minot, tout mouflet
J'étais toujours dans les nuages
Enfermé

Il est vrai que parfois je tousse
Trop de volutes, trop de bouffées
Je drague dur la drogue douce
A travers ses grilles brillent des mains de fée

Je suis prisonnier des nuages
J'y cherche les clés de mon art
Peut-on rêver plus belle cage
Qu'un Django Reinhardt

Vîtes-vous forçat plus volage
Ailes d'oiseau plus enchaînées
Admiratrice de mirages
Mon âme s'évade aux bras des nuées

Renaître enfant c'est de mon âge
Dans ma roulotte ensorcelée
Je roule un vaporeux voyage
Prisonnier des nuages de fumée.

Web site: www.math.umn.edu/~foursov/chansons/nougaro/prisonnier.html

No idea if these words are set to Nuages or not. Does mention Reinhardt as opposed to Debussy though!

Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Peter T.
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 01:59 PM

Sorry, lost the line breaks -- where the caps are.

Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 04:03 PM

Peter, Peter, I'll carry your guitar case anytime. Wow, what a job you did. Don't know if that's the song or not, but the lyrics are great(I went to school in Quebec and can still muddle through in French). When I show these replies to Tony he'll "plotz" (he's one quarter Jewish)

Mudcatters continue to amaze me with their kindness and resourcefulness.

Rick

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 09 May 99 - 08:37 PM

Rick, any news on this? Regards, John.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 10 May 99 - 07:22 PM

Not a sausage, John. I think the lyric that Tony was looking for must be pretty obscure. However Peter's yeoman work has provided a pretty good one, and I believe Tony's learned it.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Brett Lewis
Date: 11 Jan 00 - 09:17 AM

Rick. You'll find the lyrics in a book called Jazz Hits. It's a French publication by Alain Pierson and written by Marcel Dadi. Distribution Exclusive Import Diffusion Music 42-44, rue du Fer a Moulin - 75005 Paris. If I'm allowed I could E-Mail the lyrics.I'm new to the Web would this contrvene copywrite? If not please forward your E-mail address to [e-mail].

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 11 Jan 00 - 01:20 PM

Brett, God bless you. My friend Tony Quarrington has been hunting for these for years. Considering all the money both he and I have spent on Django (and Dadi) related material, I don't think anyone would mind. Is it possible to just print them here in this thread so that others might see what we've been hunting for.

Rick

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Brett
Date: 12 Jan 00 - 08:26 AM

Lentement dans le soir
Le train s'en va
Sur le quai son mouchoir
s'enfuit deja
Dans la glace comme un songe
Le mur gris sa maison
Sous le jour qui s'alonge
S'estome a l'horizon
Un nuage s'etire sur son toit bleu
En passant il semble dire
Un triste adieu
Et tout ce que j'aimais
Lorsque le train vire
Dans un flot de fumee
S'efface a jamais
(COUPLET)
Le coeur rempli de fievre
Un jour croyant trouver l'amour on fait un beau reve
Mais l'orage emporte votre bonheur
Le beau roman s'acheve
Et serrant votre coeur
(REPEAT)

Hope Tony enjoys singing this as much as I enjoy playing it.
By the way I have a Japanese Maccaferri copy made by The Kiso Suzuki Violin Company, Kiso-Fukushima Nagano, under their Takeharu Guitar models.
It has a wonderful tonality to it and when attacked sounds just like Django.

All the
Brett.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 12 Jan 00 - 08:35 AM

Great work, Brett, you've made Rick a happy bunny! Now if only I could sing...on second thoughts, I'd rather be able to play like Django (or anyone!).
Doesn't sound quite the same on kazoo!
RtS

Subject: URGENT RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: GUEST,Jenny Kendall-Tobias
Date: 20 Jan 00 - 08:43 AM

Could someone please contact me ASAP (this is very urgent now) as I need the English lyrics to Nuages beginning It's the Bluest Kind of Blues. With grateful thanks and regards (please email to [e-mail] AND [e-mail]). THANK YOU SO MUCH

Subject: Lyr Add: IT'S THE BLUEST KIND OF BLUES
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:17 PM

The sheet music in pdf format is here. There is some commentary with sound samples here.

IT'S THE BLUEST KIND OF BLUES (MY BABY SINGS)
Words, Spencer Williams. Music, "Nuages" by Jean "Django" Reinhardt. 1946

VERSE: Of all the songs I've ever heard,
I love a blue song. I know ev'ry word.
Night and day I dream in a world of bliss
And so I am confessing the reason is this:

CHORUS 1: It's the bluest kind of blues my baby sings.
It's the newest kind of blues my baby sings.
It's the kind that makes you sigh.
It's the kind that makes you cry,
Doing something to my poor heart like a soft lullaby.

CHORUS 2: It's the bluest kind of blues my baby sings.
It's the truest kind of blues my baby brings,
Always on my mind,
Awake or a-sleeping,
It's the bluest kind of blues my baby sings.

TAG: It's the bluest kind of blues my baby sings.

[Vocals recorded by Monica Lewis, Jessica Molaskey, and Peggy Lee.]

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Severn
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 08:42 PM

"Nuage" music beats New Age music any time!

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: cptsnapper
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:45 PM

I have a vague recollection of hearing another set of English lyrics years ago on a BBC radio programme but unfortunately I've forgotten which show it was & also the title: it might be worth contacting the BBC if you want to take this any furher.

Subject: RE: Django's Nuages..lyrics?
From: Flash Company
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 11:35 AM

Must confess that I knew of this lyric, but only as a title, never heard it performed!

FC