Le crabe sort sur ses pointes (Cocteau, set by A. Honegger, A. Satie) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Le crabe sort sur ses pointes
Avec ses bras en corbeille;
Il sourit jusqu'aux oreilles.

La danseuse d'Opéra,
Au crabe toute pareille,
Sort dans la coulisse peinte 
En arrondissant les bras.

Authorship

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

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

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

Six Poésies de Jean Cocteau

Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866-1925)

Quatre Petites Mélodies

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

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