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{{Text|French}}
{{Text|French}}
<poem>
Incertitude, ô mes délices
Vous et mois nous nous en allons
Comme s’en vont les écrevisses,
A reculons, à reculons.
</poem>


 
{{Translation|English}}
:Incertitude, ô mes délices
<poem>
:Vous et mois nous nous en allons
Uncertaintly, o my delight,
:Comme s’en vont les écrevisses,
You and I we get away
:A reculons, à reculons.
As crayfish do,
<br>
Backwards, backwards.
 
</poem>
{{Translation|French}}
 
:Uncertaintly, o my delight,
:You and I we get away
:As crayfish do,
:Backwards, backwards.
<br>


Translation from [http://www.recmusic.org/ "Lied and Art Song Texts Page". ]
Translation from [http://www.recmusic.org/ "Lied and Art Song Texts Page". ]

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Contributor: David Newman (added 2008-07-29).   Score information: Letter, 1 page,     Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - Original Sheet music lyrics were French, German and English. The English and German have been removed from the original scans - Edition in D Flat Minor.


General Information

Title: L’Ecrevisse
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Lyricist: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)


Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: Piano


Published: 1920.


Description: The chasons "L’Ecrevisse" is Number 5 in the song cycle "Le Bestiaire (ou Cortège d’Orphée)" published in 1920 by French music publisher "Editions Max Eschig" and is Copyright 1920 by Les Editions de La Sirène.

Note: This “song cycle” of miniature songs was written early in Poulenc’s career. It is perhaps an extreme case of the disparity between US Copyright law and that of countries which base their copyrights on death dates. Users outside the US should be especially cautious to consult the laws of their own country before downloading these songs.

The edition from which these songs were taken had English words above the staff, and German words below the French. Both the German and English translations were removed for Art Song Central, under the assumption that our users would want to sing the original French, and thus removing a distraction and leaving extra room to write in IPA and/or a literal translation.


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Original text and translations

French.png French text

Incertitude, ô mes délices
Vous et mois nous nous en allons
Comme s’en vont les écrevisses,
A reculons, à reculons.

English.png English translation

Uncertaintly, o my delight,
You and I we get away
As crayfish do,
Backwards, backwards.

Translation from "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".

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