Une fillette bien gorrière (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)

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• (Posted 2023-03-13)  CPDL #73053: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-03-13).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 159 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch for SATT or transposed down a fifth for ATTB. Modernized French underlay

General Information

Title: Une fillette bien gorrière
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATT or ATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1538 in Livre 2: 27 chansons a 4 (Pierre Attaingnant), Edition 1, no. 26
    2nd published: 1538 in Le Parangon des chansons, livre 2 (Jacques Moderne), Edition 1, no. 30
Description:  A chanson usually ascribed to Clemens non Papa, but credited in one early source to Clément Janequin.

Original text and translations

French text Une fillette bien gorriere Tout auprez dune riviere Embrassa ung vert vestu La troussa dru & me nu. Ilz ouyrent quelcun crier Qui disoit que feras tu. Ilz ne sont pas tous Sur les arbres, les cocus.

French text modernized Une fillette bien gorrière Tout auprès d'une rivière Embrassa un vert vétu* La troussa dru & me nu. Ils ouirent quelqu'un crier Qui disait, "Que feras tu?". Ils ne sont pas tous Sur les arbres, les coucous.

English translation So this well nasty bint Donned the green gown* Right by the river there; I boffed her hard, with me in the buff. Someone was heard to shout, "What are you up to?" Not everything that's cuckoo Sits in a tree!. (Trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)

• Un vert vétu/green gown. Dress stains resulting from fornication upon damp grass. An idiom common to both English and French folksong; not to be confused with Monica Lewinsky's blue dress.}}