A girl was crying C005
Audio clip: One girl was crying
1 Background
1962, Alain Barrière released his second 45 rpm EP with 4 new songs of his own. Song A girl was crying was originally written for Dalida, who created in 1961 on stage at the Olympia. All the songs on this tour singing were etched LPs, except for this song (Thanks Jean-Noel for these details). This song fits perfectly with Dalida, but she did not return, probably because too explicit? Dalida had in fact used to conceal the desperation that lived by the happiness expressed in his songs ...
2 Lyrics
The division is not obvious. I propose this: A
first verse of 11 lines.
A chorus of 4 to ( A girl was crying, crying ...) The most , lou, the
A 10-second verse to a chorus of 4
to ( A girl was crying, crying ... )
A third verse 13 to
One last refrain of 5 to ( She left without delight ), followed by recovery at the beginning of the first verse.
So a fairly irregular versification, but when the music fits perfectly with all its nuances.
I've found two magnificent lines which express the leak in the suicide She left for a big country / Ours is so small . A very positive gesture to express the ultimate negation of life, a presentation at the edge of the glorification of suicide.
3 Music
A very sweet lullaby to lull the children after a long day ... A dish with lots of strings. A cheerful and lively music, which retains very easily.
four themes
painful cycle of unhappy love affairs. We here at the beginning of the cycle, the zero point, then we are directly transported to the tragic and irreversible.
In the first verse, our dream girl of twenty in true love, she thinks like a novel, and she cries because she has not found it yet.
In the second verse, she goes looking for him and did not find it.
In the third verse, she finally found this great love, but not at all as she had imagined. And he quickly fled.
The last chorus is a kind of epilogue where our daughter crying is found dead.
The senselessness of life, which appears here in the open: we expect love, and when found he fled immediately, leaving place only despair and death.
5 Analysis
If, as he himself acknowledges, the songs of Alain Barrière are generally rather sad, it is downright sinister: a girl who will not stop crying, and that we finally found dead. A little theme song as sung by a small poppy Mouloudji in 1951, but there she was not crying, she was asleep, and then she was not suicide but was murdered by a jealous lover. So back to our daughter-fountain that never stops complaining: She thinks of love, and focuses on a man whose name she screams. But as always in this case, the confrontation with reality is catastrophic, and madness takes the reins of reason. If the poet does not say she committed suicide, we let it clear.
There are two to almost trivial:
Her long blond hair and acted like a cross
Which to me echo a poem set to music of Aragon and sung by Georges Brassens: No happy love
Nothing is ever to man. Neither his strength nor his weakness
nor his heart. And when he believes his arms
Open shade is a cross
And we can not say that this text also poured in for complacency ...
Now, let this song through a distorted mirror that changes the negative into positive
A girl laughed and laughed
His foolish love
A girl laughed and laughed
see ourselves as beloved
She ran and ran in the woods
Search
beautiful lover she had dreamed
She screamed, shouted into the wind
The name of the beloved
And finally, the deepest timber
Echo awaited Him
has responded
Look around you, it is there
The beautiful love that awaits
A girl sang, sang
Two comments:
These positive word better stick to the melody.
The song is gaining strength and consistency.
Conversely, a girl crying suffers from a very great contradiction between a very positive song and lyrics too negative. No doubt the large gap is too big?
And then, I will propose here a more speculative hypothesis: this song was originally intended to be sung by Dalida in history is actually prescient. After dreaming the great love Dalida lived a life punctuated by numerous dramas, mostly from the years 1961-1963 (our song in 1962), with a long list of husbands and lovers who commit suicide or end up running away. At 50 years, Dalida was persuaded to bring misfortune to the men in her life. She committed suicide in 1987 at the age of 53 years, leaving the message: Forgive me, life is unbearable . Our great country was probably too small for her.
6 Sources
http://www.tadine.ca/poesie/mouloudji/co...icot.shtml
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalida
http://elina.chez.com/il% 20y% 20n%% 2 ... 20pas eureux.htm
Jacques-Deric
Barriérophile heterodox and iconoclastic
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