Translation of the song lyrics L'ostendaise - Jacques Brel

L'ostendaise - Jacques Brel
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song L'ostendaise , by -Jacques Brel
Song from the album Jef
in the genreЕвропейская музыка
Release date:30.03.2020
Song language:French
Record labelWhite Room
L'ostendaise (original)L'ostendaise (translation)
Une Ostendaise An Ostend
Pleure sur sa chaise Cry in his chair
Le chat soupèse The cat weighs
Son poids d’amour His weight of love
Dans le silence In the silence
Son chagrin danse Her sorrow dances
Et les vieux pensent And old people think
Chacun son tour Each in turn
À la cuisine In the kitchen
Quelques voisines Some neighbors
Parlent de Chine Talk about China
Et d’un retour And a return
À Singapeur In Singapore
Une Javanaise A Javanese
Devient belle-sœur Becomes a sister-in-law
De l’Ostendaise From Ostend
Il y a deux sortes de temps There are two kinds of time
Y a le temps qui attend There's time waiting
Et le temps qui espère And the time that hopes
Il y a deux sortes de gens There are two kinds of people
Il y a les vivants There are the living
Et ceux qui sont en mer And those who are at sea
Notre Ostendaise Our Ostend
Que rien n’apaise That nothing appeases
De chaise en chaise From chair to chair
Va sa blessure Go his wound
Quelques commères some gossips
Quelques compères A few friends
Battent le fer strike the iron
De sa brisure Of his brokenness
Son capitaine His captain
Sous sa bedaine Under his belly
De bière pleine Of full beer
Bat le tambour Beat the drum
Homme de voiles man of sails
Homme d'étoiles star man
Il prend l’escale He takes the stopover
Pour un détour For a detour
Il y a deux sortes de temps There are two kinds of time
Il y a le temps qui attend There's time waiting
Et le temps qui espère And the time that hopes
Il y a deux sortes de gens There are two kinds of people
Il y a les vivants There are the living
Et ceux qui sont en mer And those who are at sea
Notre Ostendaise Our Ostend
Au temps des fraises Strawberry Time
Devient maîtresse Become a mistress
D’un pharmacien From a pharmacist
Son capitaine His captain
Mort sous bedaine Dead under belly
Joue les baleines play the whales
Les sous-marins The submarines
Pourquoi ma douce Why my sweet
Moi, le faux mousse Me, the fake moss
Que le temps pousse Let time grow
T'écrire de loin Write to you from afar
C’est que je t’aime It's that I love you
Et tant je t’aime And so much I love you
Qu’ai peur, ma reine What am I afraid of, my queen
D’un pharmacien From a pharmacist
Il y a deux sortes de temps There are two kinds of time
Il y a le temps qui attend There's time waiting
Et le temps qui espère And the time that hopes
Il y a deux sortes de gens There are two kinds of people
Il y a les vivants There are the living
Et moi je suis en merAnd I am at sea
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