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17 Jul 00 - 03:10 PM (#259367) Subject: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,seniorn@duke.usask.ca Does anyone know of (preferably published) French versions of any of the following songs, or where I could find any? There are also some hymns for which I'm trying to find French versions. Songs:
Thanks.
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17 Jul 00 - 03:30 PM (#259376) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy Don't know these, would like to. CAN offer you the French lyrics to Hava Nagila, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Tom Dooley, and I think I can find a Klingon version of For [name]'s a Jolly Good Fellow, they sang it at one of Worf's birthday parties... Anyone else want to chime in? |
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17 Jul 00 - 04:38 PM (#259441) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,seniorn@duke.usask.ca Thanks to Mrrzy for a quick answer. Though they are not what I was looking for, it would be great to have Ghost Riders and Tom Dooley in French. I do have words to some French folk songs, Christmas carols, etc. Reason for seeking certain songs: I'm studying a novel (Nancy Huston's Plainsong / Cantique des plaines) that, in the original English and in the French translation, quotes bits of songs of two kinds, religious and popular/folk. Did the author/translator do the French versions herself, or did she use existing translations? (Some of both, probably.) |
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17 Jul 00 - 04:48 PM (#259448) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Let me know if you want "The Water Is Wide" |
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17 Jul 00 - 04:54 PM (#259452) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy I'd like The Water Is Wide, and anything else from the original request list, especially This Land is Your Land, and did they rewrite it for France??? Wouldn't that be great? As for how these were translated, I have them by Les Compagnons de la Chanson, and I *believe* they did all their own translations. Will post when I get the time to type out... and I'll be missing some pieces here and there. Fair warning. I'll probably post those as Lyrics Requested, with as much as I can remember in and the holes, with luck, will then get plugged... |
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17 Jul 00 - 04:57 PM (#259455) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy Also, have you 2 Canadians heard of Allan Mills? We had a set of children's albums, one in French, the other in English, same songs, different records... very nice setup. It had things like Il Etait Un Petit Navire in English, and Savez-Vous Planter Les Choux, and others... |
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17 Jul 00 - 05:08 PM (#259463) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: katlaughing I don't know if they have any of the songs you are looking for, but you will find an extensive site with midis if you click on Comptines, Chansons, et Poesies Some really neat stuff there, katlaughing |
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17 Jul 00 - 09:26 PM (#259672) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy I just posted the lyrics to Hava Nagila (Dansons, mon amour). |
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17 Jul 00 - 09:34 PM (#259681) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy kat, GREAT site! This is why the Mudcat is for moi! |
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18 Jul 00 - 12:45 AM (#259792) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: katlaughing Just passing on what I received when I came here....it's what it's all about, eh? :-) |
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18 Jul 00 - 11:23 AM (#260047) Subject: Lyr Add: TROP LOIN D'IRLANDE From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Trop Loin d'Irlande Translation - Marc Chabot C'est une bouteille C'est une lettre L'amour est roi Oui.......... Ah Trop loin d'Irlande
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19 Jul 00 - 02:12 PM (#260891) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,seniorn@duke.usask.ca kat, thanks for the great link to folk/childrens' songs. Nancy |
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19 Jul 00 - 02:25 PM (#260909) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy George Seto, what a beautiful Ould Sod song! How would you say the Ould Sod in French, anyway? Generally one speaks of retourner au pays, regardless of where the pays was that you left, non? |
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19 Jul 00 - 05:20 PM (#261046) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Cha'n 'eil mi a tuigsinn. I don't know. Sorry. |
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19 Jul 00 - 09:14 PM (#261260) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Mrrzy Bon, d'accord, c'est quoi ça? C'est pas du Québécquois, ça c'est sûr! L'Irlandais? |
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27 Dec 01 - 03:08 AM (#616901) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Genie George, Was that post-- "Trop Loin d'Irlande" the French version of The Water Is Wide? It fits with the tune but is not a translation of the English version I know to The Water Is Wide. If not, can you post those lyrics? Genie |
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27 Dec 01 - 11:13 PM (#617433) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,Brían I have a macaronic version of I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD from a Warner Bros cartoon. I don't think its what your looking for, though: Je suis travailler on the rail road, Tous le live long jour. Je suis travailler on the rail road, Just to passer le temps away. Can't you hear le capitain shouting, "Levez-vous de bonne heure!" I think that's all I remember. Pepe Le Pew really cuts me up & I fell out of the chair laughing when I heard this one! Brían |
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28 Dec 01 - 03:10 AM (#617504) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,Nerd I remember Tri Yann once did a French version of "The Town I Loved So Well," adapted so the town was Nantes instead of Derry! It was called La Ville Que J'ai Tant Aime'.
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28 Dec 01 - 03:54 AM (#617514) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,Labyrinth Hey Brian! that's such a hoot!!!! And seniorn@duke.usask.ca ~ I was just wondering about the why of your request. In almost every context I can think of: school, camp, etc., &c., it would be more appropriate to learn|teach|perform an actual French song, from France or Canada. No offense intended; I am second-guessing your intentions and purposes. I simply feel that if you want to impart a real feel for another language, honour it and its associated culture ~ do V'la le bon vent or Alouette rather than translating such thoroughly English rhymes as Farmer in the Dell. Whatever you do and are doing with music, you WILL be back @ the Mudcat Cafe. More power to you in finding "Down by the bay", and so on. You could feed the lyrics into any of a zillion translation utilities available online, then a francophone on campus to help polish the machine translation to the requisite metre [blah blah blah .....] Children's librarian/music therapist/mudcat junkie. |
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28 Dec 01 - 12:13 PM (#617632) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: robinia I agree totally with the last comment (about not trying to translate, but instead learning the real songs of the country); learning French carols like Un Flambeau or Il Est Ne, for instance, instead of awkward translations of Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer. And by the way, there IS an old French children's song to the same tune as For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. It goes "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, miroton, miroton, mirotaine/ Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, ne sais quand reviendra/ ne sais quand reviendra, ne sais quand reviendra/ [back to the start of the tune] Il reviendra-z-a Paques, miroton, miroton, mirotaine/ il reviendra-z-a Paques ou a la Trinite [I'm missing my accent marks, sorry]. / ou a la Trinite, ou a la Trinite..." And it goes on, (la Trinite se passe?) as this is a song with typically French linked verses that never really ends.. I'm resurrecting it from memory, but I know there's more.... |
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28 Dec 01 - 04:56 PM (#617763) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: robinia Well, more has just popped into mind (and I still can't make my computer do the accent marks): "la Trinite se passe . . . Malbrough ne revient pas . . . Monsieur [not sure of this, but you need something to make it scan] Malbrough est mort . . . est mort et enterre . . . " With the repeats and the mireton, mireton, miretaines, this peppy - sad song goes on for quite a while. And I humbly submit that finding real foreign language words for familiar tunes like this one is a much more rewarding enterprise than the strained translations-from-the-familiar that beginning language students so often demand. (Do they think it will make French more familiar? It does just the opposite.) Catchy tunes have crossed national boundaries and, I bet, acquired fascinatingly different sets of words since people started singing. (Like the familiar tune whose English words have for the moment escaped me -- though I remember it in German as "Freut euch des Lebens" and in French as the Christmas carol "Nouvelles agreables" and I'm sure it DOES have familiar English words and hope someone can supply them for me. Should this be a new thread? It seems too petty....) |
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28 Dec 01 - 09:06 PM (#617872) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Genie Brian, Your song reminds me of a feature Saturday Evening Post used to run, called "Tales Mein Grossfodder Told Me. It was stories told in part English, part German, and part made-up English words that sounded like German. The "tales" were hilarious. Robinia, while I do love hearing songs in their original language and sometimes translations seem awkward, I can think of quite a few songs that have been translated pretty literally without sounding much the worse for it. "Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle" and "Es Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen" ("Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming") are examples, as is the familiar "Frere Jacques"/"Are You Sleeping?" round that children sing. Genie |
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28 Dec 01 - 09:12 PM (#617873) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: masato sakurai Not folk songs, but there's Les Beatles en français site. ~Masato |
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29 Dec 01 - 12:41 AM (#617950) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Bert Wasn't the tune for "For He's a Jolly Good F ellow" originally a Norman French Tune? |
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29 Dec 01 - 03:56 AM (#617982) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: robinia It wouldn't surprise me -- the French song certainly goes back... By the way, Genie, I've nothing against translations that are sung by ordinary people and not just first-year language students -- that have passed a kind of test, in other words... |
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29 Dec 01 - 06:45 AM (#618012) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,Bud Yep. For He's a Jolly Good Fellow--or The Bear Came Over the Mountain--is to the French tune of Malbrough s'en va -t-en Guerre, quoted above. "Malbrough" is actually "Marlborough" and is pronounced "Malbrook" (in my Quebecois way). |
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12 May 02 - 05:15 PM (#709666) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) A site with 15000 French songs, including many recent ones. Piaf, Brel, all the great ones here. Chanson ABC de la Chanson Francophone. To search by title, click on Titres in the box at left. This large website may take time to load if your computer is power-challenged. For songs starting with "the" go to "L'" |
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20 Apr 06 - 11:47 AM (#1722864) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,Stefanie does anyone know the original french lyrics of the song beyond the sea, aka, 'la mer' by charles trenet and albert lasry...? please help if you can. thanks. alors, je suis a la recherche du paroles francais du chanson 'la mer' du charles trenet et albert lasry. peut-on m'aider? merci bien. (aussi pardon, ma française est très mal!) |
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20 Apr 06 - 12:01 PM (#1722887) Subject: Lyr Add: LA MER (Charles Trenet) From: GUEST,ClaireBear Found here: LA MER Paroles et Musique: Charles Trenet 1945 La mer Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs A des reflets d'argent La mer Des reflets changeants Sous la pluie La mer Au ciel d'été confond Ses blancs moutons Avec les anges si purs La mer bergère d'azur Infinie Voyez Près des étangs Ces grands roseaux mouillés Voyez Ces oiseaux blancs Et ces maisons rouillées La mer Les a bercés Le long des golfes clairs Et d'une chanson d'amour La mer A bercé mon cœur pour la vie |
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21 Apr 06 - 10:49 AM (#1723786) Subject: RE: Help: French lyrics sought From: GUEST,Mrr What is wrong with your frenchwoman? |
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19 Feb 12 - 08:30 AM (#3310948) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: GUEST,debbie please,i need the french version of 'to God be the glory,great things he hath done'.thanks |
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17 Jan 13 - 11:25 PM (#3467910) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: GUEST,townpiper I'm looking for French/Quebecois Lyrics to a tune I heard from Les Cahrbonniers d'en fer ( I think that was the group) Tunes was called L'Irlandais- done a cappella with just foot tap accompaniment> A great tune, I'd love to find it. Merci |
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17 Jan 13 - 11:57 PM (#3467920) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: Monique Verses lyrics but the refrain is different. The last part of the refrain is "j'en ai pas plus long qu'un irlandais mais est ben plus dure" (ahem... it says it all!) Video |
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18 Jan 13 - 12:06 AM (#3467923) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: Monique I forgot: Here, 2nd song is where I took the last part of the refrain, the first part being "sur la verdure" added at the end of each verse. |
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18 Jan 13 - 01:26 AM (#3467928) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: Monique Yikes, it's "... mais ben plus dure". It also seems that Les charbonniers de l'enfer's lyrics are different at the end -I couldn't understand what they sing after "Ils parlent français, latin aussi" but they don't sing "hélas, que le monde est malin" etc... A very slightly different refrain about the Irishman can be found in at least another song |
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18 Jan 13 - 06:54 AM (#3467992) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: Monique Last but not least, the band on the video is "Hommage aux aînés" |
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30 Apr 13 - 11:03 PM (#3510591) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: Jim Dixon In case anyone is still looking for French translations of familiar English-language songs— Hart-Rouge, a Canadian group, has recorded a song DIEU À NOS CÔTÉS which is a French translation of Bob Dylan's WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE. It's on the various-artists tribute album called "A Nod to Bob" Hugues Aufray,* a Frenchman, has recorded many Dylan songs in French. I think he wrote the translations himself: All I Really Want to Do - recorded as "Ce Que Je Veux Surtout" Ballad of Hollis Brown - recorded as "Ballade de Hollis Brown" Blowin' in the Wind - recorded as "Dans le Souffle du Vent" Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - recorded as "N'Y Pense Plus Tout Est Bien" Forever Young - recorded as "Jeune Pour Toujours" Girl from the North Country - recorded as ""La Fille du Nord" Heartland - recorded as "Au Coeur de Mon Pays" I Shall Be Released - recorded as "Nous Serons Libres" If You Gotta Go, Go Now - recorded as "Si Tu Dois Partir, Va-T-En" It Ain't Me Babe - recorded as "Ce N'Était Pas Moi" Knockin' on Heaven's Door - recorded as "Knock Knock Ouvre-Toi Porte du Ciel" Like a Rolling Stone - recorded as "Comme des Pierres Qui Roulent" The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - recorded as "La Mort Solitaire de Hattie Carroll" Maggie's Farm - recorded as "Maggie la Ferme" Man Gave Names to All the Animals - recorded as "L'Homme Dota d'un Nom Chaque Animal" Motorpsycho Nightmare - recorded as "Cauchemar Psychomoteur" Mr. Tambourine Man - recorded as "L'Homme Orchestre" Outlaw Blues - recorded as "Le Blues du Hors-la-Loi" Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35 - recorded as "Tout L'mond' un Jour S'est Plante" The Times They Are A-Changin' - recorded as "Les Temps Changent" What Was It You Wanted - recorded as "tra Mais Q'uest-ce Que Tu Voulais?" When the Ship Comes In - recorded as "Le Jour Ou le Bateau Viendra" With God on Our Side - recorded as "Dieu Est à Nos Côtés" * Be careful; I have seen his name misspelled "Hughes" in several places. |
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02 Jan 18 - 08:47 PM (#3897023) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: French translations of familiar songs From: GUEST http://www.lescousinsbranchaud.com/swingparole.htmcontains one version...also check out le groupe de St-Comiens on this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozvYlHh-SA |