| L’bal? | The ball? |
| Bill,? | Bill,? |
| Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao.
| Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao.
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| C'?tait l’plus beau bal de tout le continent.
| It was the finest ball on the whole continent.
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| T’avais? | You had? |
| gogo l’bruit et l’r?ve,
| gogo the noise and the dream,
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| L’bruit et l’r?ve, l’bruit et l’r?ve
| The noise and the dream, the noise and the dream
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| Et tout c’que tout le monde offre? | And what everyone else offers? |
| ses enfants
| their children
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| Quand on entrait dans cet? | When we entered this? |
| tablissement.
| establishment.
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| Je n’sais pas trop si c’genre de truc vous aurait plu.
| I'm not sure if that kind of stuff would have appealed to you.
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| On riait en buvant comme des perdus.
| We were laughing and drinking like lost people.
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| Sur l’parquet, l’herbe poussait dru.
| On the floor, the grass grew thick.
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| Par le toit la lune verte passait
| Through the roof the green moon passed
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| Et pis la musique, l?, vraiment, on t’en donnait pour ton fric.
| And the music, there, really, we gave you for your money.
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| Joe, rejoue la musiqu’de c’temps-l?.
| Joe, play some music back then.
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| Vieille lune de Bilbao, que l’amour ?tait beau.
| Old moon of Bilbao, how beautiful love was.
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| Vieille lune de Bilbao, fume ton cigare l?-haut.
| Old moon of Bilbao, smoke your cigar up there.
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| Vieille lune de Bilbao, jamais j’te ferai d? | Old moon of Bilbao, never will I make you |
| gaut.
| left.
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| Vieille lune de Bilbao, tu laches pas les poteaux.
| Old moon of Bilbao, you don't let go of the poles.
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| Je n’sais pas trop si c’genre de truc vous aurait plu,
| I don't know if this kind of thing would have pleased you,
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| Mais c'?tait l’plus chouette,
| But it was the coolest part,
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| C'?tait l’plus chouette,
| It was the coolest,
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| C'?tait l’plus chouette
| It was the coolest
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| Du monde entier.
| Of the whole world.
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| Au bal d’Bill,? | At Bill's ball,? |
| Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao,
| Bilbao, Bilbao, Bilbao,
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| Un beau jour fin mai en l’an mil neuf cent huit,
| One fine day at the end of May in the year nineteen hundred and eight,
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| Quat’mecs s’amen?rent plein d’galette,
| Four guys showed up full of pancakes,
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| Plein d’galette, plein d’galette.
| Lots of cake, lots of cake.
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| Raconter tout ce qu’ils ont fait, j’pourrais pas
| Tell everything they did, I couldn't
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| Mais si vous? | But if you? |
| tiez arriv? | have you arrived? |
| s ce jour-l?,
| s that day?,
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| Je n’sais pas trop si c’genre de truc vous aurait plu.
| I'm not sure if that kind of stuff would have appealed to you.
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| On riait en buvant comme des perdus.
| We were laughing and drinking like lost people.
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| Sur l’parquet, l’herbe poussait dru.
| On the floor, the grass grew thick.
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| Par le toit la lune verte passait
| Through the roof the green moon passed
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| Les quat’gars d’Frisco
| Frisco's Four Guys
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| Tiraient des coups de browning
| Fired browning shots
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| A qui mieux-mieux
| Who better-better
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| Et par dessus la musique continuait.
| And above the music continued.
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| L’bal d’Bill,? | Bill's ball? |
| Bilbao, Bilbao,
| Bilbao, Bilbao,
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| Aujourd’hui tout est repeint, tout est d? | Today everything is repainted, everything is d? |
| cent,
| hundred,
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| Plantes grasses et glaces ordinaires, ordinaires,
| Ordinary, ordinary succulents and ice cream,
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| Comme dans tous les autres? | As in all the others? |
| tablissements
| establishments
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| Mais si vous venez? | But if you come? |
| passer ce jour-l?,
| spend that day?
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| ?a vous plaira peut-?tre bien, on ne sait pas.
| You might like it, we don't know.
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| Moi? | Me? |
| a m’fait d’la peine. | pained me. |
| On peut plus rigoler.
| We can't laugh anymore.
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| Y a plus d’herbe sur le parquet.
| There's more grass on the floor.
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| La lune verte, elle a fait ses paquets
| The green moon, she packed her bags
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| Et pis la musique, vraiment, on a honte pour son fric.
| And the music, really, we're ashamed of the money.
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| Joe, rejoue la musiqu’de c’temps-l?. | Joe, play some music back then. |