Ballade des gros dindons
Music: Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) · Words: Edmond Rostand (1868–1918)
Les gros dindons, à travers champs,
D'un pas solennel et tranqille,
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The words
Les gros dindons, à travers champs,
D'un pas solennel et tranqille,
Par les matins, par les couchants,
Bêtement marchent à la file, Devant la
pastoure qui file, En fredonnant de vieux
fredons, Vont en procession docile Les
gros dindons!
Ils vous ont l'air de gros marchands Remplis
d'une morgue imbécile, De baillis rogues
et méchants Vous regardant d'un oeil hostile;
Leur rouge pendeloque oscille;
Ils semblent, parmi les chardons,
Gravement tenir un concile, Les gros
dindons!
N'ayant jamais trouvé touchants Les sons que
le rosssignol file, Ils suivent,
lourds et trébuchants, L'un d'eux digne comme
un édile, Et, lorsqu'au lointain campanile
L'angelus fait ses lents din! don!
Ils regagnent leur domicile,
les gros dindons!
Prud' hommes gras, leurs seuls penchants sont
vers le pratique et l'u tile, Pour eux,
l'amour et les doux chants Sont un passetemps
trop futile, Bourgeois de la gent volatile
Arrondissant de noirs bedons,
Ils se fichent de toute idylle,
Les gros dindons!
About this song
- Music
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- French, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1890, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 3:07
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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