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C'est La Fin / Pour Mon Cuer

[anon., arr. John Sothcott]

Shirley Collins sang these two short Medieval French songs on her and her sister Dolly's 1976 album Amaranth; She was accompanied by John Sothcott on vièle. The album notes comment:

Two short songs from the Northern French Trouvère Tradition of the 12th and 13th Centuries. It is likely that Blondel de Nesle, Minstrel to Richard The Lionheart (himself a Trouvère), would have played the vièle as accompaniment to his master's song.

Lyrics

C'est la fin, koi que nus die, j'amerais
C'est la jus en mis les prés,
C'est la fin, je veul amer
Jus et baus i a leves, bele amie ai.
C'est la fin koi que nus die, j'amerais.