Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Bizet: La Coccinelle, WD 87, artist - Sylvia McNair. Album song Rêveries - Mélodies françaises, in the genre Мировая классика
Date of issue: 31.01.1997
Record label: Universal International
Song language: French
Bizet: La Coccinelle, WD 87(original) |
Elle me dit: «Quelque chose |
«Me tourmente.» |
Et j’aperçus |
Son cou de neige, et, dessus |
Un petit insecte rose |
J’aurais dû, — mais, sage ou fou |
A seize ans, on est farouche, — |
Voir le baiser sur sa bouche |
Plus que l’insecte à son cou |
On eût dit un coquillage; |
Dos rose et taché de noir |
Les fauvettes pour nous voir |
Se penchaient dans le feuillage |
Sa bouche fraîche était là; |
Hélas! |
Je me penchai sur la belle |
Et je pris la coccinelle; |
Mais le baiser s’envola |
«Fils, apprends comme on me nomme,» |
Dit l’insecte du ciel bleu |
«Les bêtes sont au bon Dieu; |
«Mais la bêtise est à l’homme.» |
(translation) |
She said to me, "Something |
"Torments me." |
And I saw |
Her neck of snow, and on it |
A little pink bug |
I should have, — but, wise or fool |
At sixteen, one is fierce,— |
See the kiss on her mouth |
More than the insect around his neck |
It looked like a seashell; |
Pink and black spotted back |
The warblers to see us |
Leaned into the foliage |
Her cool mouth was there; |
Alas! |
I bent over the beautiful |
And I took the ladybug; |
But the kiss flew away |
"Son, learn as I am called," |
Said the blue sky insect |
“The beasts belong to God; |
"But stupidity belongs to the man." |