Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (Knights of the Round Table)

DESCRIPTION: French. Let us drink, Knights of the Round Table. The singer wants manybottles if the wine is good. He'll drink with a girl on his knee. Is it her husband pounding on the door? The devil take him. Let the other drunks bury him. Drink wihle you're alive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1955 (translated in Song Fest)
KEYWORDS: drink courting death burial foreignlanguage
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 237, "Chevaliers De La Table Ronde" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Lucie Lisee, "Chevaliers de la table ronde" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #919, recorded 09/12/2024)
NOTES [129 words]: I sincerely hope that everyone reading this knows that there was no Round Table. There may well have been a Romano-British general Arturius who fought the Anglo-Saxons at Mount Badon. There was certainly a King Arthur of Welsh folklore. But the modern tale of King Arthur was invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and the Round Table was invented by Laȝamon/Layamon/Lawaman/Lawman in his Brut chronicle. The French, especially Crétien de Troyes, then vastly messed with the tale (e.g. inventing Sir Lancelot), and Sit Thomas Malory bequeathed the whole thing to the modern era in his Morte d'Arthur. The story is about 10% folklore, 90% fakelore, with most of the fakelore originally French.
So maybe it makes sense that a bunch of French drunks sang about the Round Table. - RBW
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