Helas ne fringuerons nous (Pierre Certon)

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  • (Posted 2009-04-27)  CPDL #19345:        (Finale 2002)
Editor: Benoît Huwart (submitted 2009-04-27).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 47 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
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General Information

Title: Helas ne fringuerons nous
Composer: Pierre Certon

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularChanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1549 in Livre 28: 28 chansons a 4 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 25
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Original text and translations

French.png French text

Helas ne fringuerons, fringuerons nous,
Helas ne fringuerons nous jamais?
Et nostre chamberiere,
Au matin c'est levée,
A prins son seau a l'eau,
A l'eau s'en est allée:
«Qu'en puys-je donc mais.»
«Non, fay-je, pas moy.»
Helas ne fringuerons, fringuerons nous,
Helas ne fringuerons nous jamais?

English.png English translation

Alas, will we never frig, never frig?
Alas will we never frig at all?
You see we have this chambermaid,
Who every morning’s on the ball,
She takes her water pail
She takes it to the well:
“I can’t help it withal.”
“Not me, I don’t, at all.”
Alas, will we never frig, never frig?
Alas will we never frig at all?

Translation by Thomas Daughton