CANUTS, LES

Created on 22/05/2024
Latest update on 22/05/2024

Artist: Aristide Bruant
Author: Aristide Bruant
Label: EPM
Year: 1894

Introduced by Bruant at the Exposition Universelle in Lyon (1894). His only version surviving is a later one on 4cd Le Paris de Bruant released in 2010. Song about wevers' insurrections in Lyon (1831 and 1834). Lyrics inspired by Heinrich Heine's 1847 poem Die Schlesischer Weber (see there).

Covers:

1955:

Yves Montand [changed "nous sommes tous nus" in "nous n'irons plus nus" in the third verse]

1962:

Catherine Sauvage

1981:

Mijn Maats En Ik [as Opstandig Weverslied on album Anderhalf]

2000:

Tjane [idem; on cd Cadans der Getouwen]

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