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Ballade à la lune

Music: Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) · Words: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810–1857)

C'était dans la nuit brune, Sur le clocher

jauni, La lune, Commeun point sur un i.

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The words

C'était dans la nuit brune, Sur le clocher

jauni, La lune, Commeun point sur un i.

Lune, quel esprit sombre Promèneau bout

d'un fil, Dans l'ombre, Ta face et ton profil?

Estu l'œil du ciel borgne?

Quel chérubin cafard Nous lorgne Sous ton

masque bla- fard? N'estu rien qu'une boule,

Qu'un grand faucheux bien gras Qui roule Sans

pattes et sans bras?

Es- tu, je t'en soupçonne, Le vieux cadran

de fer Qui sonne L'heure aux damnés d'enfer?

Sur ton front qui voyage, Ce soir ontils

compté Quel âge A leur éternité?

Estceun ver qui te ronge,

Quand ton disque noirci S'al- longe En

croissant rétréci?

Qui t'avait ébor- gnée

L'autre nuit? t'étaistu Co- gnée À

quelqu'arbre pointu?

Car tu vins pâle et morne Coller sur mes

carreaux Ta corne À travers les barreaux.

Va, lune moribonde, Le beau corps de Phébé

La blonde, Dans la mer est tombé!

Tu n'en es que la face,

Et déjà tout ridé s'efface Ton front

dépossé- dé.

Commeun ours à la chaîne,

Toujours sous tes yeux bleus Se traîne L'océan

montu- eux, toujours! Et qu'il vente ou qu'il

neige, Moimême chaque soir, Que faisje,

Ve- nant ici m'asseoir? Je vais voir à la

brune, Sur le clocher jauni, La lune,

Commeun point sur un i.

About this song

Music
Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) (dates as OpenScore states them)
Words
Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
Language
French, as its source states it
First published
in or before 1894, as IMSLP states it
Length
2:53
The score
OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
Offered in
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Not offered in
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