Quand j'étais jeune fillette (Johannes Lupi)

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Title: Quand j'étais jeune fillette
Composer: Johannes Lupi
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: SecularChanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1535 in Vingt et six chansons musicales a quatre parties (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 16
    2nd published: 1536 in Second livre contenant XXXI chansons musicales (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 32
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Original text and translations

French.png French text


Quant iestoys jeune fillette
Las que devint mon coquillonet
On me menoit aux champs a lherbe
Au verd buisson mon coquillon
Et danson soubz le buissonet
Ie men alloys allieurs esbatre
Ou jay perdu mon adventage
Ung autre foys seray plus sage.

French.png French text

 modernised
Quand j'étais jeune fillette
Las que devint mon couillonne
On me menait aux champs à l'herbe
Au vert buisson mon couillon;
Et dansant sous le buissonet
Je m'en allais ailleurs ébattre
Où j'ai perdu mon avantage
Un autre fois serai plus sage.

English.png English translation


So when I'm this slip of a girl,
This dork regrettably insinuates himself.
He leads me to this grassy meadow,
With a green thicket,the dork;
Bopping beneath the shrubs,
I romp in other ways too,
And lose my virtue.
I'll know better next time.

(trans.: Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)