Art Song Central

Title: Because (Lorsque j’entends ton pas)

Music: Guy d’Hardelot (1858-1936) (pseudonym for Helen Rhodes)

Text:

• Original French: Guy d’Hardelot (1858-1936) (Helen Rhodes)
• English Translation: Edward Teschemacher

Free at Art Song Central:

• Not yet.

Elsewhere on the Internet:

• PDF available via IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
• Key: C Major
• Range: E4 -G5
• Also at The National Library of Australia: Because

• PDF available via IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
• Key: B♭ Major
• Range: D4 -F5
• Also at The National Library of Australia in multiple copies.

• PDF available via IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
• Key: A♭ Major
• Range: C4 -E♭5
• Also at The National Library of Australia in multiple copies.

Mp3:

• As recorded in French by Caruso at the Internet Archive

MIDI:

• Not yet.

French:

Lorsque j’entends ton pas, comme en un rêve
Le fol espoir de te revoir s’élève,
Et vainement vers toi je tends les bras,
Quand j’entends ton pas.

Et quand divinement ta voix m’enchaîne,
Je vois s’évanouir toute ma peine,
Et tout ton être chante, et vibre en moi,
Quand j’entends ta voix.

Et puis tu viens à moi et je frissonne,
Tu prends ma main, et tout mon coeur se donne
A toi en un baiser brûlant d’émoi,
Car tu viens à moi!

English:

Because, you come to me, with naught save love,
and hold my hand and lift mine eyes above,
a wider world of hope and joy I see,
because you come to me!

Because you speak to me in accent sweet,
I find the roses waking round my feet,
and I am led through tears and joy to thee,
because you speak to me!

Because God made thee mine, I’ll cherish thee,
through light and darkness through all time to be,
and pray His love may make our love divine,
because God made thee mine!

• Recmusic.org has the English text.