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Thread #169209   Message #4170727
Posted By: Monique
24-Apr-23 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
LA FILLE SOLDAT (French)

La jeune demoiselle a perdu son amant
N'est-ce pas bien dommage dès l'âge de quinze ans ?
Elle s'en va l'attendre à l'ombre de ces bois
Mais elle a beau attendre son amant ne vient pas

Rossignolet sauvage rossignolet charmant
Apprends-moi des nouvelles de mon très cher amant
Oh ton amant la belle il est bien loin d'ici
À vingt-cinq jours de marche y a bien de quoi marcher

Habille-toi la belle habille-toi en guerrier
Tu marcheras sans doute trente-six jours entiers
Quand la belle fut en Prusse aperçoit son amant
Qui faisait l'exercice au beau milieu du rang

Si j'avais su, la belle, que tu m'aurais connu,
J'aurais passé en Flandre, jamais tu n' m'aurais vu.
Que je suis malheureuse d'avoir fait tant de pas
Pour un amant volage qui n' me regarde pas !

Ah dis-moi donc la belle qui t'a envoyée ici ?
Apprends-moi des nouvelles des garçons du pays
Les garçons du village ils sont tous mariés
Il y a que toi volage qui m'ait abandonnée.

Te chagrine pas la belle nous nous marierons
Dans un pays de France ou dans le Piémont,
Te chagrine pas la belle nous nous marierons
Dans un pays de France ou dans le Piémont.
THE MAIDEN SOLDIER

The young lady has lost her sweetheart
Isn't that a pity at the age of fifteen?
She goes to wait for him in the shade of these woods
But no matter how much she waits, her sweetheart doesn't come

"Wild nightingale, charming nightingale
Tell me news about my dearest sweetheart "
"Oh your sweetheart, beauty, he is far away from here
At a twenty-five day walk, it's a long walk

Dress up, beauty, dress up as a warrior
You will probably walk thirty-six whole days"
When the beauty was in Prussia, she sees her sweetheart
Who was doing the exercise in the middle of the row.

"If I had known, beauty, that you would have known me,
I would have gone to Flanders, you'd never have seen me."
"How unhappy I am to have walked so many steps
For a flighty sweetheart who doesn't care for me!"

"Ah, tell me, beauty, who sent you here?
Bring me news from the boys from home."
The boys from home are all married
There's only you, fickle one, who abandoned me."

"Don't worry, beauty, we'll get married
In a region of France or in Piedmont
Don't worry, beauty, we'll get married
In a region of France or in Piedmont."
These lyrics originated in Savoy (Cf. Chansons populaires, recueillies dans les Alpes françaises (Savoie et Dauphiné) by Julien Tiersot, 1903 (1st version).
Malicorne retained the lyrics but the 4th verse and not the tune. They used the tune to Réveillez-vous, Picards, "an old Picard warrior song, currently the regional anthem of Picardy, and marching song of the 1st Infantry Regiment. It comes from the tune sung by Picard soldiers and mercenaries under the Burgundian States before 1479 and their attachment to the crown of France. The lyrics express their loyalty to Charles the Bold. According to Gaston Paris, this song was probably authored by a Picard in the service of Maximilian I." (French Wikipedia)

Recording by Malicorne

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