Tout gai!
French source:
Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi
Belle jambe, tireli, qui danse;
Belle jambe, la vaisselle danse,
Tra la la la la …
So merry!
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Ah, so merry;
Lovely leg, tireli, that dances
Lovely leg, the crockery dances,
Tra la la.
Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Tout gai!
French source:
Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi
So merry!
English source:
Richard Stokes
Tout gai! gai, Ha, tout gai!
So merry,
Belle jambe, tireli, qui danse;
Ah, so merry;
Belle jambe, la vaisselle danse,
Lovely leg, tireli, that dances
Tra la la la la …
Lovely leg, the crockery dances,
Composer
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. In the 1920s and 1930s he was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. He was one of the first composers to acknowledge the potential of recording in making…
Poet
Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi
Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi was a music writer and critic, and promoter of musicians such as Franz Liszt and Modest Mussorgsky.