Les Chapeaux
French source:
Robert Pinget
à cet endroit comme gages de nos têtes
quelques chapeaux démodés?
The hats
English translation ©
Anon.
and leave behind here
as surety for our heads some old-fashioned hats?
Les Chapeaux
French source:
Robert Pinget
The hats
English source:
Anon.
Faudrait-il partir ce soir et laisser
Must we depart this evening
à cet endroit comme gages de nos têtes
and leave behind here
quelques chapeaux démodés?
as surety for our heads some old-fashioned hats?
Composer
Germaine Tailleferre
The composer Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) played the piano and organ, taught and also painted. Thanks to her father’s opposition to her musical education, she changed her name early on from ‘Taillefesse’ to ‘Tailleferre’. Her mother gave her…