Un soir bien tard (Louis Bourgeois)

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• (Posted 2021-08-15)  CPDL #65507: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-08-15).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 189 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Modern French underlay

General Information

Title: Un soir bien tard
Composer: Louis Bourgeois
Lyricist: Anon
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1539 in Le Parangon des chansons, livre 5 (Jacques Moderne), no. 17
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Original text and translations

French text Ung soir bien tard ie vis Rolant qaccouloit une fillette, et la menoit en vi en virolant cuidant fringuer en sa couchette. Plus proceder dist la fillette est impossible maintenant, car ie congnois quen la brayette na pirouet ne vi volant.

French text  (modernised) Un soir bien tard je vis Roland qui accoulait une fillette, et la menait en vie en virolant cuidant fringuer en sa couchette. "Plus proceder" dit la fillette "est impossible maintenant, car je connais que la brayette n'a pirouet ni vie volant".

English translation So I seen Roland late one night and he's getting this bint going, twirling her round like they was about to to bonk on her bunk. "You're getting no further" says the bint, "that just isn't happening; I reckon that codpiece won't flip-flop or fly" (trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)