DOMINIQUE 'NIQUE 'NIQUE

Fellini's Dominique

Fellini's Dominique. 

In 1982 this techno version of Dominique by the original singing nun was released. The song was a big hit by the Soeur Sourire back in the 1963. This video was brilliantly re-purposed from Fellini's 1972 film, Roma. The song is about the Dominican order which was established by the pope to wipe out the threat to the church of the gnostic Cathars in southern France. The Crusades, begun in 1099 and continuing for almost 200 years, had proved so popular in the Vatican that they were extended against heretics, pagans, and the popes enemies of all kinds beyond the traditional Muslims and Jews of the Holy Land.  The Crusades also had provided a way to keep trouble-making landless younger scions of kings out of the way, far from home. 

This Crusade against what they called The Albigensian Heresy wiped out millions. It is famous for the quote "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." or, "Kill them all; God will know his own." by the Roman Catholic commander Arnaud Amaury, an abbot, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209. He had been asked, how they could tell the heretics from the many faithful in the town.

Here are the lyrics, first in English then in French, of Soeur Sourire's happy song celebrating the work of the Dominicans.


Refrain
Dominique, nique, nique, over the land he plods along
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 back land
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 Friars 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

Soeur Sourire The Singing Nun VIDEO Dominique 1963

en français

Dominique, nique, nique s'en allait tout simplement
Routier pauvre et chantant
En tous chemins, en tous lieux, il ne parle que du bon Dieu

Il ne parle que du bon Dieu

A l'epoque ou Jean-sans-Terre de' Angleterre etait Roi
Dominique, notre Pere, combattit les Albigeois
Repeat first 4 lines: Chorus

Ni chameau, ni diligence il parcout l'Europe a pied
Scandinavie ou Provence dans la sainte pauvrete
Refrain

Enflamma de toute ecole filles et garcons pleins d'ardeur
Et pour semer la Parole inventa les Freres-Precheurs
Refrain

Chez Dominique et ses freres le pain s'en vint a manquer
Et deux anges se presenterent portant de grands pains dores
Refrain

Dominique vit en reve les precheurs du monde entier
Sous le manteau de la Vierge en grand nombre rassembles
Refrain

Dominique, mon bon Pere, garde-nous simples et gais
Pour annoncer a nos freres la Vie et la Verite
Refrain

'Dominique' by the orginal composer and singer Soeur Sourire. This 7Inch single was produced in 1982 by Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman of the Belgian electro b...