# Les Papillons

- Music: Ernest Chausson (died 1899)
- Words: Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (died 1872)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/5077660

## The words

Les papil- lons couleur de neige volent par  
es- saims sur la mer;  
Beaux papillons blancs, quand pourraije  
prendre le bleu chemin de l'air.  
Savez– vous  
ô belle des bel- les  
Ma bayadère aux yeux de jais,  
S'ils me voulaient prêter leurs ai- les,  
dites, savezvous, où j’irais?  
Sans prendre un seul baiser aux roses,  
à travers val- lons et forêts,  
J'irais à vos lèvres micloses,  
Fleur de mon âme  
et j'y mourrais  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).