Brassens Georges
Miscellaneous
The Prayer
Words: Francis Jammes
Music: Georges Brassens
(c) 1953 Éditions Musicales Ray VENTURA
rights transferred to WARNER CHAPPELL
MUSIC FRANCE
1 By the little boy who dies next to his mother
While children are having fun in the pit;
br/>And by the wounded bird who does not know how
Its wing suddenly becomes bloody and descends
By hunger and thirst and fiery delirium:
I salute you, Mary.
2 By the kids beaten by the drunk who comes home,
By the donkey who receives kicks in the stomach
And by the humiliation of the punished innocent,
By the sold virgin who was stripped naked,
By the son whose mother was insulted:< br/>Hail, Mary.
3 By the old woman who, stumbling under too much weight,
Cries: My Dieu ! By the unfortunate whose arms
Could not lean on human love
Like the Cross of the Son on Simon of Cyrene;
By the horse that fell under the cart he drags:
Hail, Mary.
4 By the four horizons which crucify the World,
By all those whose flesh is torn or succumbed,
By those who are without feet, by those who are without hands,
By the patient who is operated on and who moans
And by the righteous one placed among the murderers:
I hail, Mary.
5 By the mother learning that her son is healed,
By the bird recalling the bird that fell from the nest,
By the grass which thirsty and collects the shower,
By the kiss lost by love given again,
And by the beggar finding his change:
Hail, Mary.
6 By the donkey and by the ox, by the shadow of the straw,
By the poor who are told to go away,
By the nativities who will have on their tombs
Only bouquets of frost with dove's wings,
By the virtue which struggles and that which succumbs:
Hail, Mary.