The Lament of the hillock

the Lament of the hillock is a Chanson whose text is of Michel Vaucaire and the music of Georges Van Parys.

One discovers this song in the film French-cancan .

In this musical comedy carried out in 1955 by Jean Renoir, Henri Danglard (Jean Gabin), director of a theater presents a new arrival, which sings for the first time, under the features of Anna Amendola and with the voice of Cora Vaucaire this song…

The poetic text of Michel Vaucaire on a rather nostalgic music of Georges Van Parys been used by an interpretation with the realistic tone as Cora Vaucaire make this “lament” a piece of anthology, a great classic of the French song.

“In top of the street Saint-Vincent/a poet and an unknown factor/liked the one moment space/But it forever re-examined

This song it composed/Hoping that its unknown factor/One morning of spring will hear it/Some share with the corner of a street

The too pale moon/Installation a diadem/On your russet-red hair/the too russet-red moon/Of glory splashes/Your underskirt full with holes

The too pale moon/Caress the opal/Of your blasés eyes/Princess of the street/Is the welcome/In my wounded heart

The staircases of the hillock are hard to the paupers/the wings of the mills protect in love ones…”

Random links: