AMERICA ------- My friends, I must go away I do not have more that to throw my keys Because it waits me since I was born America I give up to my path Many things which I liked That begins with a little sorrow America REFRAIN:America, America, I want to have it and I will have it America, America, if it is a dream, I will know it All the whistles of the trains, all the sirens of the boats Sang me hundred times the song of Eldorado Of America My friends, I tell you good-bye I should cry for you a little Excuse me if I have in my eyes Only America I will return I do not know when Bent with gold and embroidered with money Or without a penny, but richer than before America REFRAIN. America, America, if it is a dream, I will dream America, America, if it is a dream, I want to dream HELLO, SWEETHEARTS ------------------ The mornings follow and resemble each other, When the love has taken place in the everyday routine. We were not supposed to live together, It is not enough to love each other forever. It is funny, yesterday we were bored And we can hardly find The words to speak about the bad weather. And now that it is necessary to leave, There is a hundred thousand things to say, Which hold the heart too much for such a little time. REFRAIN:We fell in love with each other like we broke, ------- Quite simply without thinking of tomorrow, Tomorrow which always comes a little too quickly, With the good-byes which sometimes occur a bit too well. We do what is necessary, we play our roles, We look at each other, we laugh, we a little, We have always forgotten something, It is not easy to say good-bye. And we know too well that sooner or later, Perhaps tomorrow or even tonight, We will think that everything is not lost, Of this unfinished novel, We'll make a fairy tale, But we've passed the age, we would not believe it anymore. REFRAIN. Romeo, Juliette and all the others, Sleep in peace at the very bottom of your books, A simple story like ours Is one of those which will never be written. Come on, baby, it's time to go, Leave our memories here, We'll come downstairs together if you want, And when she sees us pass, The owner of the cafe, Will still tell us "Hello, sweethearts". REFRAIN. CHAMPS-ELYSEES -------------- I trotted on the avenue, the heart open to the unknown. I wanted to say hello to no matter whom No matter whom and it was you, I said no matter what to you, It was enough to speak to you, to tame you down. Refrain: In Fields-Elysées, in Fields-Elysées ------- With the sun, under the rain, at midday or midnight, There's all you want in Fields-Elysées You said to me "I have appointments in a basement with some fools, Which live with the guitar in a hand, from evening till morning". Then I accompanied you, we sang, we danced And we did not even think of hugging each other. Refrain. Yesterday evening two strangers and this morning on the avenue, Two in love all dazed by the long night. And from Square of Star to Square of Agreement, as an orchestra with thousand cords, All the birds of the point of the day sing love Refarin. THE WAY OF MY DAD ----------------- He was a bit of poet and a bit of vagrant He had never known neither fatherland, nor the owner He came from anywhere, went to the four winds But inside his carriage we were ten children And in the evening, around a campfire We dreamed of a white house while singing REFRAIN:That it is long, that it is far, your way, dad ------- It is really tiring of going where you go That it is long, that it is far, your way, dad You should stop at this corner But it did not listen to us and on a small day Our family took again its course for the long voyage It was hardly any time for our mother to wash her shirt And here you are - we left again for a new Promised Land And in the evening, around a campfire She dreamed of a white house while singing REFRAIN. And again jolting through the seasons Again looking over the horizon Not even realizing that, our father sowed us Over the four corners of the world like grains of corn And at some place at the end of the universe The old carriage of my father is still rolling REFRAIN. A BUN WITH CHOCOLATE -------------------- Every morning he bought His bun with chocolate The baker smiled to him He did not look at her REFRAIN:And yet she was beautiful ------- The customers did not see that It should be said That she was really very crusty As much as her crouissants And she dreamed melancholicaly In the evening in her shop Of this distant young man He was absolutely short-sighted But she did not know it He lived in a fuzzy world Where clouds did not fly REFRAIN:He did not see that she was beautiful, ------- Did not know that she was What the destiny Sent him blindly To make him happy And the girl who was not stupid Bought glasses For a person selected by her heart In the hot odor of wafers And baguettes and babas In bakery at the feast One evening they got married REFRAIN:All in white she was beautiful ------- She customers saw only her And from their union were born Heaps of little kids Short-sighted like their dad among brioches Filling thire pockets With chocolate buns And she was still beautiful Customers saw only her And when you think of it Life is very well made It is enough as little As a simple pair glasses To hang two beings And so that they are happy THE CAFE OF THREE DOVES ----------------------- Nancy in winter, a wet snow A girl enters a cafe And I drink from my glass, she settles at the side I do not know how to approach her The rain, beautiful weather, there's nothing brilliant in that But it is well to force her star Then comes the moment when we speak about ourselves And snow melted under our steps REFRAIN:We met in the Cafe of Three Doves ------- From the date to the love without a shelter We felt fine, we felt ourselves alone in the world We had nothing, but we had all the life Nancy in spring, it looks like in the South She loves me and I love her too We walk talking, getting back to the phylosophy I take photographs of her thousand times Small bars all around the place When it was sunny we came outside But there was too much light and noise We waited for the night to come REFRAIN. Nancy, it is too far, it is at the end of the world It moves away on each anniversary But I am sure, my sorrow remember it The happiness passed by the Lorraine She went away to follow other paths Which often do not cross mine I forgot you, but it is stronger than me It sometimes happens to me to think of you REFRAIN. DALTONS ------- Listen, good people, to the cruel And painful story of the brothers Dalton Who were the incarnation of the evil And who thus serve an example To all those whom the devil draws aside from the right path All the kids were at school... Instead of pencils they had files, As ties - the cords of flax. Do not astonish, if their very first crime Was to have made their mom die of sorrow REFRAIN:Tagada, tagada, here are the Daltons ------- Tagada, tagada, here are the Daltons They were the Daltons Tagada, tagada, there's nobody animore The years passed... They had managed to catch the rage And to tie up the doctor who made vaccines And then contaminated people of the vicinity Having fun to bite them, then accused the dogs. REFRAIN. They became men... An advice, my friend, before you meet them Hug your wife, me your hand Fast in your life will surely make you Cut your throat and throw you under the train REFRAIN. But Justice took care... When every day their heads increased by twenty centimes, American centimes As they were conceited and avid of money They delivered themselves to get the premium Because they were even more stupid than malicious REFRAIN. THE LAST SLOW FOX TROT ---------------------- REFRAIN:If only we danced the last fox trot tonight, ------- As if the air of time were mistaken in tempo. If only we danced the last fox trot tonight, A little tenderness in the middle of the dance club. It would be well though, To dance very softly, And to stand at the point To forget everything around us. It still would be good And I would be about to finish When the violins started To begin the love. REFRAIN. We won't meet again, Cheek to cheek, Between two strangers, Who has not had a date. But we'll see well, It is won in advance, We'll be in love tomorrow, To invent other dances for ourselves. REFRAIN. THE TEAM OF JOJO ---------------- Lulu sold those fabrics Jacquot plunged in a bar Dédé tasted the wines Me, I was strong with hauls And Jéjé washed the squares Pierrot did not do anything We filled our pockets To pay to an old jalopy Fleuri in his cap Who dreamed of Provence And who died in Fontainebleau REFRAIN:Someone lit a cigarette and everyone did ------- And it was the holiday, July fourteenth There was never a high-flier In the team of Jojo There were less nights without guitar than days without bread We shared everything and had nothing What if we were fool, what if we were kidding What if we were fine We rented because of plums Four walls under the old attic Very close to collapse But for a whole fortune We would not have moved REFRAIN. Lucien put the veils And Jacques ia paid in a bar Where Andre drinks water I am not strong with hauls anymore Roger is a tax inspector Pierre is looking for a job I changed my guitar But I kept as a gift This air which holds me hot From the bottom of my memory One of the team of Jojo REFRAIN. ET SI TU N'EXISTAIS PAS ----------------------- If you did not exist Tell me why I would exist To wander in a world without you Without hope and without regret And if you did not exist I would try to invent the love As a painter who sees under his fingers The birth of the colors of a day And which does not return from there And if you did not exist Tell me for whom I would exist The passer-bies asleep in my arms Whom I would never love And if you did not exist I would only be one more point In this world which comes and which goes I would feel lost, I would need you And if you did not exist Tell me how I would exist I could pretend to be me But I would not be true And if you did not exist I think that I would have found The secret of life, and why to live Just to create you And to look at you Verse 1. A FLOWER IN MY TEETH -------------------- I spent my youth as a handle of currency I did a bit of everything, everywhere a little, not knowing anything to do A flower in my teeth, that was all I had But I knew well that all the women of the world were waiting for me REFRAIN:There are girls that one dreams of And those with whom one sleeps There are girls that one regrets And those who leave remorses There are girls that one likes And those that one could have liked Then one day there is the woman That one has been waiting for I knew campbeds much softer than a pillow And feasts of king on the counter of a railway station cafe I knew people well, I liked them quite a lot But in their faces at the bottom I did not do anything but looked for you REFRAIN. One day here, the other there, a rich day and the other not I was hungry to see everything, to know everything, I had so much to do Many times the path misled me However I ended up finding the one which leads to you REFRAIN. GUANTANAMERO ------------ Guantanamera, my city, Guantanamera Guantanamera, my city, Guantanamera He was a man on the way He was undoubtedly a brother He had neither links, nor place And on the roads of the exile On the paths, in the places He spoke to me about his city REFRAIN. I am a sincere man From where the palm grows And before dying I want To let my verses go from my soul My verse is made of clear green And of a carmine ignition My verse is a wounded red deer That looks for a shelter in the mount On behalf of poor men in my land I want to take my chance And the stream of the mountain range Pleases me more than the sea REFRAIN. There remains the whole land for me But I did not ask so much When I crossed the border There was nothing more in front of me I went from stopover in stopover Far from my native land REFRAIN. L'ETE INDIEN ------------ You know, I've never been so happy as that morning We were walking along the beach a bit like this one It was autumn, an autumn when it was so nice A season which exists only in the North of America Here down South it's called the indian summer But it was simply all ours With your long dress you looked like An aquarelle by Marie Laurencin And I can remember, I remember very well What you said that morning It was a year ago, a century ago, an eternity ago Refrain: Let's go wherever you want, whenever you want ------- And we will still be in love, when love has disappeared Our all life will be like this morning In the colours of the indian summer Today I'm very far from that autumn morning But it's if I were there. I am thinking about you. Where are you? What are you doing? Do I still exist for you? I'm looking at this wave which will never reach the sanddune You see, like this wave I come back Like this wave I lie on the beach And I recall, I recall of warm seas Of the sun and the happiness which were passing over the sea It was a year ago, a century ago, an eternity ago Refarin. LUXEMBOURG PARK --------------- Luxembourg Park I have not been here for a long time There are children who run and the leaves which fall There are students who dream they have finished their lessons And professors who dream to begin them There are couples in love who stirs descreetly The russet-red carpet which autumn has unfolded in front of them And finally there is me, all alone and a little cold One more day without love One more day in my life Luxembourg Park has aged Is it the same? Is it me? I do not know One more day without sun One more day which flees Towards the sleep, towards being forgotten Like a disappeared spark Where this child walks, I used to walk It almost follows the trace which I left My toy boats still play in the basin If the years died The memories carry well REFRAIN:One more day without love ------- One more day of the life A rainy day which passes away A rainy day far from you You told me that you loved me I believed you, you lied to me It was too beautiful to be well I left to seek further I told you that I loved you And I believed in it and it was true You were everything, everything is finished You left, you are everywhere As for me I am almost fine My life goes on I live like it comes But if you called me You would see as nothing changes As for me I am almost fine The life goes on I live like it comes But if you called me You would see as nothing changes In the nearest future Is there a way to reunite us? Come, come any time I await you, my last chance I wanted to succeed in my life And I was very successful except my life I had a touch of madness in me Which did not push, which did not take Tell me what I have done to my life Tell me what I have done to your life I wanted you to live my life But you wanted to live your own life I had in me a beauty spot Which I let grow aside Tell me what I have done to your life Tell me what I have done to my life REFRAIN. A whole life for your life Eternity for one day I give all for nothing To make you come back to see you again In the Luxembourg Park A whole life for your life Eternity for one day For a smile, for a glance For a delirious hope I will dig the tomb of my past I will run over the world to find you I will break the ice which separates us To face happiness in your mirror Life is not worth the sorrow inside you All my paths carry me to where you will go All the paths of the world go towards your life Towards the light of your life ... SI TU T'APPELLES MELANCOLIE --------------------------- Lonely in front of your mirror You see yourself sad without knowing why And you would do anything Not to be at your place REFARIN: If you are called melancoly If the love is only a practice Don't tell me your life I know it, your loneliness If you are called melancoly We are ready to forget it together The lost dogs, the misunderstandings We know them, we are like them And tomorrow perhaps Since all may arrive anywhere You will be there for a date, And I will be able to recognize you REFRAIN. SALUT ----- Refrain: Hello, it's still me! ------- Do hello, how are you? Time appeared very long to me Far from home I thought of you. I have travelled a little too much And I feel tired Make me a good coffee I have a story to tell you. Once there was somebody Somebody which you know well He left very far He was lost, he returned. Refrain. You know, I have changed a lot, I had some ideas About you, about me, about us, The foolish idees, but I was fool. You don't have anything more to say to me I am just a memory Perhaps not too bad one I will never say again: Refrain. SIFFLER SUR LA COLLINE ---------------------- I saw her close to a bay-tree, she kept her white ewes When I asked from where came her fresh skin she said to me It is to roll in the dew which makes the shepherdesses pretty But when I said that with her I would like to roll there too REFRAIN:She said to me ------- She said to me to go up there whistle on the hill To await her with a small bouquet of wild roses I gathered flowers and I whistled as much as I could I waited, waited, she never came At the fair of the village one day I sighed to her That I would like to be an apple pending on an apple tree And that each time that she passes she comes to bite inside me But she passed only showing me her pretty teeth REFRAIN. FOR YOU ------- For you For the way you are beautiful For the way you are mine For your tender words, a little artificial Sometimes For you For the small girl who you were For the girl you often still continue to be For your past, for your regrets For your former charming princes REFRAIN:For the life, for the love ------- For our nights, for our days For the eternal return of a chance For the child who will come Which will resemble to us Which will be at the same time you and me For me For the madness the reason of which is you For my angers without knowing why For my silences and my treasons Sometimes For me For the time that I spent looking for you For my talents of which you make fun well For my faults which I hid from you For my thoughts of a wandering entertainer REFRAIN. For us For the memories, which we will have For the future and especially for the present For the health of the old Earth Which spins around For us For our hopes and our illusions For our next first date For the health of these thousands who are in love Who are like us REFRAIN. THAT WON'T CHANGE THE WORLD --------------------------- It is funny, you left And yet you are still here Since everybody speaks to me about you A woman perfume, the echo of your voice Your farewell, I do not believe it at all It's a goodbye, almost an appointment That will not change the world It has turned too much without us It will always rain over London Nothing will change at all What can surely make it open The door which was closed again We loved each other, do not speak about it more And the life continues That will not change the world That you move your house The world, it will go on, And there will be a good reason for it The dust of a star That's what makes the Milky Way shine We loved each other, do not speak about it more And the life continues That will not change the world That will not disturb it The world, it is the same as it was It is you only who has changed As for me, I remained same The one who believed that you loved him It was not true, do not speak about it more And the life continues ONCE WE WERE TWO ---------------- REFRAIN:Remember, it was Thursday ------- Remember, we followed The path of lovers It was once we were two Remember, it was the great day The great step towards the great love It was even better than that We were two, that was once A motel on the road to the port A banal evening Two customers, a receptionist who falls asleep On his newspaper He gives a key to each of us He says to us "Good evening" In the morning we reserved rooms apart We do not dare to show that we've hardly loved For eighteen years REFRAIN. We took the fourteen randomly, A little Then your dress slipped into the black We loved each other When later the boy came to bring to us Two coffees with a listening smile You hid He did not see that you cried The child who went itself from there REFRAIN.