Chevaliers de la table ronde - la chanson

Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine to drink, old friends to trust.

The purpose of this page is collect materials and links related to that wonderful French drinking song, Chevaliers de la table ronde.  As far as I know, I have never seen a version sung in English but it could be possible.  Knock on wood!  I just found out that Raymond Crooke has done one! hehe 

I have even scored my own version for piano and voice because there was very slim pickings on the web for this wonderful song.  I was not quite enthusiastic about the little I found on the web so I took to the piano and scored my own version which fits the bill nicely.

History

• to add (suggestions are welcome!)
• Wikipedia - about the Knights of the Round Table (not the song)

Lyrics

• Chansons populaires et enfantines
   
• German folk site with French lyrics
   
• RG's site with Québécois lyrics

Sheet Music

• Petey Forrest's own piano version in PDF format (print and play to your heart's content) PDF
  - all lyrics are under the staff (I chose the five best verses to include). Thanks to Hélène L. for the proper hyphenation of the lyrics in French.  You can also watch the score playback with Scorch
   
• G Major Music Theory - Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (Ye Knights of the Round Table) PDF
   
• Versions in sheet music books: 

  International Folk Songs For Solo Singers. (In English and French with piano accompaniment). Alfred Publishing.  Published 1998. ISBN: 0739020102.

  • Musicroom.com - UK

  • Amazon.ca - Canada

  • Amazon.com - US

  Folk Songs of France / Chants Populaires de France. (In English and French with melody line and chord symbols).  Barbara Scott. Oak Archives, 1966. ISBN: 978-0-8256-0357-0

  1000 chants (Tome 1). (melody line in French and chord symbols) Jean-Edel Berthier. Les Presses d'Ile de France, 1979.
   

•  others to add as I find them...

Audio

• Chansons françaises et francophones en cours de FLE (French through Songs and Singing)
• German audio version : Oh Ihr Ritter der Tafelrunde (mp3) thanks to Sascha Sass

MIDI

• G Major Music Theory - Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (Ye Knights of the Round Table)  MIDI
  Note:  I am not agreed with the melody line in this interpretation
   
• German folk site (see lyrics above) MIDI
   
• Petey Forrest's version in Scorch (you can listen and watch the score playback if you download the Sibelius Scorch plug-in  MIDI + VISUAL SCORE

Video

• Youtube: Raymond Crooke
  - this guy is pretty rockin' and does a very nice job despite his slight Australian accent in French.  He also does an English version in the same video.  Bravo, mon vieux!
   
• Youtube: Cedars Scouts Ain Saade Group
  - there is only audio in this video
   
• Youtube: Two brothers sing... "Moi et mon petit frère Philippe chantent... " (good camraderie!) hehe
   
• Youtube: Three drunk guys - lyrics are a bit dicey but a fun time is had by all!
   
• Youtube: A choir and pianist to boot... (good audience participation at one point)
   
• Youtube: Nice group of students singing on a train in harmony...  (impressive)
   
• Youtube: more to be add as they appear!

This page is dedicated to: Ralph Milner (mastermind behind le club Chevaliers de la table ronde)

Ralph Milner (1983)

Page created and maintained by Petey Forrest. If you wanted to be added to this page, just email me.

Last updated: 03-Feb-2008