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by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)
Translation © by Peter Low

Air du rat
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Abi Abirounère
Qui que tu n'étais don?
Une blanche monère
Un jo
Un joli goulifon
Un oeil
Un oeil à son pépère
Un jo
Un joli goulifon.

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Song of the rat", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 27

Song of the rat
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
 Abi-Abiruneeba,
 so who then were you not?
 A little white amoeba,
 a han-
 a handsome gobble-gob
 an eye -
  an eye for watching granpop
 a han -
 a handsome gobble-pot.

Translator's Note: The toy called a "ludion" in French, in English a "bottle-imp", is a figurine floating in a narrow bottle which has elastic over its mouth. When you press the elastic, the toy bobs up and down. Perhaps the poems (and songs?) could be called "Little Bobbing Bottle-Boys". The French words are playful and incoherent.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2001 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 28