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Thread #129927   Message #3092114
Posted By: GUEST,Hektor
09-Feb-11 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Douce Dame Jolie (de Machaut)
Subject: Lyr Add: DOUCE DAME JOLIE (In English)
Lyrics to DOUCE DAME JOLIE (English version):

My sweet and fair lady
Never believe of me
That I have bent my knee
To anyone but you.

For with no thought of cheating, sweet thing
I have so humbly binded
Though it's ready for your will and still
With no evil thought in mind,

Alas, out of charity
Graften some relief to me
For no joy can there be
With no mercy from you.

My sweet and fair lady
Never believe of me
That I have bent my knee
To anyone but you.

You hold my heart so tightly, knightly
So close on your command
Binded so fast with chains of agony
But it wishes for more harm.

And words shall still to be
In such captivity
For your lack of pity
May always continue.

My sweet and fair lady
Never believe of me
That I have bent my knee
To anyone but you.

And as this illness never never
Can be taken from my heart
Except by you, my sweet cruel jewel
Who loves to see me smart.

And here on my bended knee
Captor, now you see
Come death and set me free
I've suffered so for you.


Hope this helped, I figured it out by listening to this version on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqfusObjTqM&feature=related
I only wrote it down the way I heard it so it may be wrong on some places. Anyway, hope it helped =)