Dominique

Melody -

Refrain:
Dominique, -nique, -nique,
S'en allait tout simplement,
Routier pauvre et chantant.
En tous chemins, en tous lieux
Il ne parl' que du bon Dieu,
Il ne parl' que du bon Dieu.

1. A l'époqu'où Jean sans Terre
D'Angleterre était roi,
Dominique, notre Père,
Combattait les Albigeois.

2. Certain jour un hérétique
Par les ronces le conduit,
Mais notre Père Dominique
Par sa joie le convertit.

3. Ni chameau, ni diligence,
Il parcourt l'Europe à pied.
Scandinavie ou Provence
Dans la sainte pauvreté.

4. Enflamma de toute école
Filles et garçons pleins d'ardeur,
Et pour semer la Parole
Inventa les frêres Prêcheurs.

5. Chez Dominique et ses frères
Le pain s'en vint à manquer,
Et deux anges se présentèrent
Portant de grands pains dorés.

6. Dominique vit en rêve
Les prêcheurs du monde entier
Sous le manteau de la Vierge
En grand nombre rassemblés.

7. Dominique, mon bon Père,
Garde-nous simples et gais
Pour annoncer à nos frères
La Vie et la Vérité.
  Refrain:
Dominique, -nique, -nique,
Over the land he plods
And sings a little song
Never asking for reward
He just talks about the Lord
He just talks about the Lord

At a time when Johnny Lackland
Over England was the King
Dominique was in the backland
Fighting sin like anything

Now a heretic, one day
Among the thorns forced him to crawl
Dominique with just one prayer
Made him hear the good Lord's call

Without horse or fancy wagon
He crossed Europe up and down
Poverty was his companion
As he walked from town to town

To bring back the straying liars
And the lost sheep to the fold
He brought forth the Preaching Friars
Heaven's soldier's, brave and bold

One day, in the budding Order
There was nothing left to eat
Suddenly two angels walked in
With a loaf of bread and meat

Dominique once, in his slumber
Saw the Virgin's coat unfurled
Over Frairs without number
Preaching all around the world

Grant us now, oh Dominique
The grace of love and simple mirth
That we all may help to quicken
Godly life and truth on earth


A cutesey song about another of the black times of religion, when the Cathars (les Albigeois) where being persecuted, tortured and, in the end, exterminated, for their peaceful version of belief in christianity. The mention of John Lackland is fitting as, he too, was one nasty dude, just like Dominique.
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