Adèle
French source:
Jean Giraudoux
Tombe un jour dans le chenal.
Il appelle au sauvetage.
Il se cramponne au récif.
Mais vers lui nul coeur ne nage...
Adèle, ainsi meur l'oisif.
Adèle
French translation ©
Richard Stokes
Falls one day into the channel.
He calls the lifeguard.
He clings to the reef.
But not a soul swims out to him...
Idlers die like that, Adèle.
Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Adèle
French source:
Jean Giraudoux
Adèle
French source:
Richard Stokes
A Douvres un original
In Dover an ecccentric
Tombe un jour dans le chenal.
Falls one day into the channel.
Il appelle au sauvetage.
He calls the lifeguard.
Il se cramponne au récif.
He clings to the reef.
Mais vers lui nul coeur ne nage...
But not a soul swims out to him...
Adèle, ainsi meur l'oisif.
Idlers die like that, Adèle.
Composer
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Read more here.
