J'attends un navire

"J'attends un navire"
"J'attends un navire"
Song
Language	French
English title	I Am Waiting for a Ship
Written	1934
Songwriter(s)	Kurt Weill and Jacques Deval

"J'attends un navire", also known as "I Am Waiting for a Ship", is a song written in 1934 by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Jacques Deval. The song was written for the musical Marie Galante [fr] but later became an unofficial anthem of the French Resistance.^[1]

^ "Pensacola Wham". The New Yorker. June 10, 1944. pp. 14–15. Weill, a small, gentle man of forty-four who wears thick-lensed glasses and has only a fringe of hair remaining, is not especially elated by his coincidental popularity. 'Too many times there has not been anything of mine showing, even on Third Avenue', he told us when we called on him last week. He is elated, however, by the news that an old song of his, one he wrote back in 1934 for a French musical play called Marie Galante, has been adopted by the French underground. It is called 'J'attends un navire'—'I Am Waiting for a Ship'—and in the play was sung by a lonely prostitute, marooned in Panama, who longed to get back to Bordeaux (ah, the French drama!). As sung these days in the cafés of Paris, it connotes invasion barges.

[1] "Pensacola Wham". The New Yorker. June 10, 1944. pp. 14–15. Weill, a small, gentle man of forty-four who wears thick-lensed glasses and has only a fringe of hair remaining, is not especially elated by his coincidental popularity. 'Too many times there has not been anything of mine showing, even on Third Avenue', he told us when we called on him last week. He is elated, however, by the news that an old song of his, one he wrote back in 1934 for a French musical play called Marie Galante, has been adopted by the French underground. It is called 'J'attends un navire'—'I Am Waiting for a Ship'—and in the play was sung by a lonely prostitute, marooned in Panama, who longed to get back to Bordeaux (ah, the French drama!). As sung these days in the cafés of Paris, it connotes invasion barges.

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