Il pleut, il pleut, bergère : Vos beaux doigts ont-ils pris Une feuille légère Pour nous mettre à l'abri ? Il pleut sous la ramie... Ma mie aux yeux si doux. Il pleut des pleurs ma mie, Pourquoi donc pleurez-vous? Je remets ma couronne De roses en vos doigts ; Ne pleurez pas mignonne Le loup est mort au bois. Contons-nous folles choses, Laissez-moi parler bas ; Vos agneaux et vos roses Ne vous trahiront pas. Car j'ai l'amour légère Et suis gai chevalier... Il ne pleut plus, bergère Voulez-vous m'oublier ?
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Confirmed with Tristan Klingsor, Le Valet de cœur. Poèmes, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908, pages 20-21.
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "Chanson de bergère", written 1897-1899, appears in Le valet de cœur: poèmes, in 1. L'escarpolette, no. 7, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1908 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by José André (1881 - 1944), "Chanson de bergère", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies et chansons, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Il ne pleut plus Bergère", subtitle: "Interlude pastoral", 1895, first performed 1897 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. E. Baudoux & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Il pleut, il pleut bergère", op. 30 (Cinq Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 5, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
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