Lyr Req: June Tabor's 'Au logis de mon père'

Subject: Lyr Req: June Tabor's 'Au logis de mon père'
From: Monique
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 12:33 PM

Would anyone have June Tabor's "Apples" and is there any leaflet with the lyrics to "Au logis de mon père" inside? Thanks!
Here is what I've come up to:

Au logis de mon père
Oh, vole, mon cœur, vole,
Il y a un pommier doux, doubidou,
Il y a un pommier doux.

Les feuilles en sont vertes,
Oh, vole, mon cœur, vole,
Et les fruits en sont doux….

C'est trois filles [?] (usually it's "d’un prince" but it's not what it sounds like),
Qui sont endormies d'ssous.

La plus jeun’ se réveille, (most likely but I'm not sure either)
Et dit "Ma sœur, il fait jour"

Non, ce n'est pas le jour
C'est le feu des armées

Ce sont nos amants doux
Qui sont au combat pour nous (usually it's "qui combattent pour nous" but here it starts with "qui sont")

Subject: ADD: June Tabor's 'Au logis de mon père'
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 12:53 PM

From the album's booklet:

AU LOGIS DE MON PÈRE
trad. arr. Tabor, Cutting, Emerson; pub Topic Records

au logis de mon père
au bas-le Mont Quervaux
il y a-t-un pommier doux et doux et doux
il y a-t-un pommier doux

et les feuilles en sont vertes
au bas-le Mont Quervaux
et les fruits en sont doux et doux et doux
et les fruits en sont doux

c’est trois filles de prix
au bas-le Mont Quervaux
qui sont endormies dessous et sous et sous
qui sont endormies dessous

la plus jeune s’y levai
au bas-le Mont Quervaux
elle dit: ma sœur, il est jour et jour et jour
elle dit: ma sœur, il est jour

non, ce n’est pas le jour
au bas-le Mont Quervaux
c’est le feu des armées, armées, armées
c’est le feu des armées

ce sont nos amants doux
au bas-le Mont Quervaux
qui sont à combattre pour nous et nous et nous
qui sont à combattre pour nous

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: June Tabor's 'Au logis de mon père'
From: Monique
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 01:54 PM

Thank you veeeeery much!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: June Tabor's 'Au logis de mon père'
From: Monique
Date: 07 Aug 25 - 02:30 PM

Here is June's video.

While I'm at it, here it's what it means (literally -I'm no poet)

at my father's house
at the foot of Mont Quervaux*
there is a sweet, sweet, sweet apple tree
there is a sweet apple tree

and its leaves are green
at the foot of Mont Quervaux
and its fruits are sweet, sweet, sweet
and its fruits are sweet

there are three worthy girls
at the foot of Mont Quervaux
who are asleep underneath and underneath and underneath
who are asleep underneath

the youngest got up
at the foot of Mont Quervaux
she said: sister, it's daytime....
She said: sister, it's daytime

no, it is not daytime
at the foot of Mont Quervaux
It is the fire of the armies, armies, armies
It is the fire of the armies

these are our sweet lovers
at the foot of Mont Quervaux
who are fighting for us and us and us
who are fighting for us

*Google doesn't know this mount anywhere on the planet but there's a "Mont Clairvaux" in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
This song is based on a traditional French song known as "Vole, vole, mon cœur vole" or "Les trois princesses" or "Derrière chez mon père" (but we have different songs starting with "Derrière chez mon père"...). We have it on Mama Lisa's World (lyrics, English translation, sheet music, midi and recording by yours truly).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: June Tabor's 'Au logis de mon père'
From: Reinhard
Date: 08 Aug 25 - 03:04 AM

I also should have added the liner notes for June' song:

At my father's house there’s an apple teee, the leaves on it are green and the fruit is sweet. Three fine young girls fell asleep beneath it. The youngest awoke and said "Look, day is breaking". "No", said her sister, "it's not dawn, it's the light of a battle. Our sweethearts are there, fighting for us."

Collected from Adolphus le Ruez of Bonne Nuit, Jersey in 1957. This would seem to be a direct descendant of the Anglo-Norman song "Au Pommier Doux", which has its origin in the 11th century. The tune that follows is of the song "Les trois demoiselles et le cordonnier" from Sark.