With the Steps of the Palate

With the steps of the palate is a traditional French song.

Presentation

• Words and music: ballade, traditional music, anonymous authors (French popular song).
• Source: statements of the 18th century.
• Diffusion: very broad, as of the 18th century, of the Brittany to the Champagne and of the Artois to the Languedoc. From 1732 to 1790, more than 40 different versions are attested in the various French provinces.
• License: public domain.
• Category: French song.
• Topic: still a song where finally, the Amour extremely courteously does housework with the Mort… One could not weary…
• Interprètes of it since 1950: Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Cora Vaucaire, Marie Laforêt, Chick Mouskouri, Guy Béart, Innocent X (group)…

Text (a version)

With the steps of the palate.
Y has so much a beautiful girl, Lonla,
Y has so much a beautiful girl.

It has such an amount of in love.
It has such an amount of in love.
That it does not know which to take, Lonla.
That it does not know which to take.

It is a p' tit shoe-maker.
It is a p' tit shoe-maker.
Which its preference had, Lonla.
Which its preference had.

It is by fitting the beautiful one.
It is by fitting the beautiful one.
That it made him its request, Lonla.
That it made him its request.

the beautiful one if you wanted.
the beautiful one if you wanted.
We would sleep together, Lonla.
We would sleep together.

In a great square bed.
In a great square bed.
Decorated white fabric, Lonla.
Decorated white fabric.

With the four corners of the bed.
With the four corners of the bed.
a bouquet of periwinkles, Lonla.
a bouquet of periwinkles.

In the mitan of the bed.
In the mitan of the bed.
the river is deep, Lonla.
the river is deep.

All horses of Roy.
All horses of Roy.
Could drink there together, Lonla.
Could drink there together.

Let us sleep there And we.
Let us sleep there And we.
Until the end of the world, Lonla.
Until the end of the world. ---