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Clément Janequin
(c.1485 - 1558)
Si le coucou
(S.A.T.B. (or A.T.T.B.))
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From Attaingnant's Trentiesme livre contenant XXVIII chansons, 1549. This edition is offered at original pitch for S.A.T.B. or transposed down a fourth for A.T.T.B.
Lyrics: Anon
Si le coucou en ce mois de Mai chante,
Ce n'est amour mais toute méchanson.
Son contrepoint par redites déchante
De tout discorde usant de méchant.
N'écoutez donc des coucous la chanson,
Ni du privé coucou ni du sauvage
Car chacun d'eux cherche son avantage
Au nid d'autrui chantent toute saison
Dont les petits chantent au bois ramage
Les grands coucous chantent en la maison.
In this month of May, if the cuckoo sings,
'Tis not of love but malice;
His counterpoint of warbled twitterings
All wearisome discord from mischief.
So listen not to the song of the cuckoo,
Be it caged bird or wild;
Each pursues his best interests.
They sing all season in the nest of another
The small ones sing in wooded bowers,
The large cuckoos sing in the house.
Si le coucou en ce mois de Mai chante,
Ce n'est amour mais toute méchanson.
Son contrepoint par redites déchante
De tout discorde usant de méchant.
N'écoutez donc des coucous la chanson,
Ni du privé coucou ni du sauvage
Car chacun d'eux cherche son avantage
Au nid d'autrui chantent toute saison
Dont les petits chantent au bois ramage
Les grands coucous chantent en la maison.
In this month of May, if the cuckoo sings,
'Tis not of love but malice;
His counterpoint of warbled twitterings
All wearisome discord from mischief.
So listen not to the song of the cuckoo,
Be it caged bird or wild;
Each pursues his best interests.
They sing all season in the nest of another
The small ones sing in wooded bowers,
The large cuckoos sing in the house.