Le dromadaire

Avec ses quatre dromadaires
Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira
Courut le monde et l'admira.
Il fit ce que je voudrais faire
Si j'avais quatre dromadaires.

by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) [pseudonym] , "Le dromadaire", from Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 10, published 1911

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Louis Durey (1888-1979) , "Le dromadaire", op. 17a no. 10 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 10.
by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) , "Le dromadaire", FP. 15a, from Le Bestiaire, no. 1.

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