Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Le Fantome, artist - Georges Brassens. Album song Au Tnp 1966, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1995
Record label: Mercury
Song language: French
Le Fantome(original) |
C'était tremblant, c'était troublant, |
C'était vêtu d’un drap tout blanc, |
Ça présentait tous les symptômes, |
Tous les dehors de la vision, |
Les faux airs de l’apparition, |
En un mot, c'était un fantôme! |
A sa manière d’avancer, |
A sa façon de balancer |
Les hanches quelque peu convexes, |
Je compris que j’avais affaire |
A quelqu’un du genr' que j’prefère: |
A un fantôme du beau sexe. |
«Je suis un p’tit poucet perdu, |
Me dit-ell', d’un' voix morfondue, |
Un pauvre fantôme en déroute. |
Plus de trace des feux follets, |
Plus de trace des osselets |
Dont j’avais jalonné ma route! |
" |
«Des poèt's sans inspiration |
Auront pris -- quelle aberration! |
-- |
Mes feux follets pour des étoiles. |
De pauvres chiens de commissaire |
Auront croqué -- quelle misère! |
-- |
Mes oss’lets bien garnis de moelle. |
" |
«A l’heure où le coq chantera, |
J’aurai bonn' mine avec mon drap |
Hein de faux plis et de coutures! |
Et dans ce siècle profane où |
Les gens ne croient plus guère à nous, |
On va crier à l’imposture. |
" |
Moi, qu’un chat perdu fait pleurer, |
Pensez si j’eus le cœur serré |
Devant l’embarras du fantôme. |
«Venez, dis-je en prenant sa main, |
Que je vous montre le chemin, |
Que je vous reconduise at home " |
L’histoire finirait ici, |
Mais la brise, et je l’en r’mercie, |
Troussa le drap d’ma cavalière… |
Dame, il manquait quelques oss’lets, |
Mais le reste, loin d'être laid, |
Etait d’un' grâce singulière. |
Mon Cupidon, qui avait la |
Flèche facile en ce temps-là, |
Fit mouche et, le feu sur les tempes, |
Je conviai, sournoisement, |
La belle à venir un moment |
Voir mes icônes, mes estampes… |
«Mon cher, dit-ell', vous êtes fou! |
J’ai deux mille ans de plus que vous… «-- Le temps, madam', que nous importe! |
-- |
Mettant le fantôm' sous mon bras, |
Bien enveloppé dans son drap, |
Vers mes pénates je l’emporte! |
Eh bien, messieurs, qu’on se le dis': |
Ces belles dames de jadis |
Sont de satanées polissonnes, |
Plus expertes dans le déduit |
Que certain’s dames d’aujourd’hui, |
Et je ne veux nommer personne! |
Au p’tit jour on m’a réveillé, |
On secouait mon oreiller |
Avec un' fougu' plein' de promesses. |
Mais, foin des dédic's de Capoue! |
C'était mon père criant: «Debout! |
Vains dieux, tu vas manquer la messe! |
» |
(translation) |
It was shaking, it was unsettling, |
It was dressed in an all-white sheet, |
It had all the symptoms. |
All out of sight, |
The false airs of the apparition, |
In a word, it was a ghost! |
In his way of moving forward, |
In his way of swaying |
The somewhat convex hips, |
I understood that I was dealing |
To someone of my favorite gender: |
To a ghost of the fairer sex. |
"I'm a lost little thumb, |
She said to me, in a muffled voice, |
A poor ghost in disarray. |
No more traces of the wisps, |
No more traces of the ossicles |
With which I had marked my path! |
" |
“Uninspired poets |
Will have taken -- what an aberration! |
-- |
My wisps for stars. |
Poor commissary dogs |
Will have crunched -- what misery! |
-- |
My marrowy oss'lets. |
" |
“When the rooster crows, |
I'll look good with my sheet |
Huh creases and seams! |
And in this secular age where |
People don't believe in us much anymore, |
We're going to cry foul. |
" |
I, whom a lost cat makes cry, |
Think if I had a heavy heart |
In front of the ghost's embarrassment. |
"Come," I said, taking her hand, |
Let me show you the way, |
Let me drive you home" |
The story would end here, |
But the breeze, and I thank it, |
Trussed up my date's sheet... |
Lady, a few bones were missing, |
But the rest, far from being ugly, |
Was singularly graceful. |
My Cupid, who had the |
Easy arrow in those days, |
Hit the mark and, fire on the temples, |
I slyly invited |
Beauty to come a while |
See my icons, my prints… |
'My dear,' she said, 'you are crazy! |
I am two thousand years older than you… “-- Time, madam, what do we care! |
-- |
Putting the ghost under my arm, |
Well wrapped in his sheet, |
Towards my household I prevail! |
Well, gentlemen, let it be said: |
Those lovely ladies of old |
Are damn rascals, |
More expert in the inferred |
That certain ladies of today, |
And I don't want to name anyone! |
At dawn I woke up, |
They were shaking my pillow |
With a 'fierce' full of 'promise. |
But, no more dedic's from Capua! |
It was my father shouting, “Get up! |
Holy Gods, you're going to miss mass! |
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