J'ai pris la route de Dijon
Pour voir un peu la Marjolaine
La belle, digue digue don
Qui pleurait près de la fontaine
Mais elle avait changé de ton
Il lui fallait des ducatons
Dedans son bas de laine
Pour n'avoir plus de peine
Elle m'a dit "Tu viens, chéri?"
Et si tu me payes un bon prix
Aux anges je t'emmène
Digue digue don daine
La Marjolaine pleurait surtout
Quand elle n'avait pas de sous
La Marjolaine de la chanson
Avait de plus nobles façons

J'ai passé le pont d'Avignon
Pour voir un peu les belles dames
Et les beaux messieurs tous en rond
Qui dansaient, dansaient, corps et âmes
Mais ils avaient changé de ton
Ils faisaient fi des rigodons
Menuets et pavanes
Tarentelles, sardanes
Et les belles dames m'ont dit ceci
"Étranger, sauve-toi d'ici
Ou l'on donne l'alarme
Aux chiens et aux gendarmes"
Quelle mouche les a donc piquées
Ces belles dames si distinguées
Les belles dames de la chanson
Avaient de plus nobles façons

Je me suis fait faire prisonnier
Dans les vieilles prisons de Nantes
Pour voir la fille du geôlier
Qui, paraît-il, est avenante
Mais elle avait changé de ton
Quand j'ai demandé "Que dit-on
Des affaires courantes
Dans la ville de Nantes?"
La mignonne m'a répondu
"On dit que vous serez pendu
Aux matines sonnantes
Et j'en suis bien contente"
Les geôlières n'ont plus de cœur
Aux prisons de Nantes et d'ailleurs
La geôlière de la chanson
Avait de plus nobles façons

Voulant mener à bonne fin
Ma folle course vagabonde
Vers mes pénates je revins
Pour dormir auprès de ma blonde
Mais elle avait changé de ton
Avec elle, sous l'édredon
Il y avait du monde
Dormant près de ma blonde
J'ai pris le coup d'un air blagueur
Mais, en cachette, dans mon cœur
La peine était profonde
L'chagrin lâchait la bonde
Hélas, du jardin de mon père
La colombe s'est fait la paire
Par bonheur, par consolation
Me sont restées les quatre chansons


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