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Song for two equal voices and guitar.
Poem by Jacques Prévert, set to music with permission from Hughes Bachelot and duly registered with PRS for SACEM.
Any performances must be declared to the SDRM.

The range of each voice is not very wide, so it can be sung equally well by altos or tenors.

The zip file contains two versions of the score -- one with the voices written as for two altos and the other as for two tenors.

The audio sample is a performance by the composer as alto and guitarist.

Embauché malgré moi ... Taken on, against my will,
dans l'usine à idées ... at the thought factory,
j'ai refusé de pointer ...I refused to clock on
Mobilisé de même ... Conscripted just the same
dans l'armée des idées ...into the thought army
j'ai déserté ...I deserted
Je n'ai jamais compris ...I've never understood
grand-chose ...much
Il n'y a jamais ....There is never
grand-chose ...much
ni petite chose ...nor little details
Il y a autre chose. ...there's something else

Autre chose ...something else
c'est ce que j'aime ...that's what I like
qui me plaît ...what pleases me
et que je fais. ...and what I do
Embauché malgré moi ...Taken on, against my will...