| A bas la romance et l’idylle,
| Down with romance and idyll,
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| Les oiseaux, la forêt, le buisson,
| The birds, the forest, the bush,
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| Des marlous, de la grande ville,
| From the hoodlums, from the big city,
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| Nous allons chanter la chanson !
| We'll sing the song!
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites !
| We have the pots!
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| Grandes ou petites
| Big or small
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites et vivent les dos !
| We have the pots and long live the backs!
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| Marlous, nos marmites sont belles,
| Marlous, our pots are beautiful,
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| Le bourgeois les adore, à genoux,
| The bourgeois adores them, on his knees,
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| Et Paris, qui compte avec elles,
| And Paris, which counts with them,
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| Est forcé d’compter avec nous.
| Is forced to reckon with us.
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites !
| We have the pots!
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| Grandes ou petites
| Big or small
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites et vivent les dos !
| We have the pots and long live the backs!
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| Le riche a ses titres en caisse,
| The rich have their securities in cash,
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| Nous avons nos valeurs en jupon,
| We have our values in petticoat,
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| Et malgré la hausse ou la baisse,
| And despite rising or falling,
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| Chaque soir on touche un coupon,
| Every night we touch a coupon,
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites !
| We have the pots!
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| Grandes ou petites
| Big or small
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites et vivent les dos ! | We have the pots and long live the backs! |
| Le pante a beau faire des largesses,
| The pante may give largesse,
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| Il ne peut être aimé comme nous,
| He cannot be loved like us,
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| Il a beau fader nos gonzesses,
| He faded our chicks,
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| Il n’sait pas leur foutre des coups.
| He doesn't know how to kick them.
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
|
| A nous les marmites !
| We have the pots!
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| Grandes ou petites
| Big or small
|
| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites et vivent les dos !
| We have the pots and long live the backs!
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| La rousse a beau serrer les mailles
| The redhead has nicely tighten the stitches
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| Du filet qu’elle tend aux déchus,
| From the net she spreads to the fallen,
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| Nous savons, grâce à nos écailles,
| We know, thanks to our scales,
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| Glisser entre ses doigts crochus.
| Slipping through her crooked fingers.
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites !
| We have the pots!
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| Grandes ou petites
| Big or small
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
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| A nous les marmites et vivent les dos !
| We have the pots and long live the backs!
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| Pourtant, les jours de guillotine,
| Yet on guillotine days,
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| Quand la loi raccourcit un marlou,
| When the law shortens a rascal,
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| Nous allons lui chanter matine,
| We will sing to him matin,
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| Pendant qu’on lui coupe le cou.
| While they cut off his neck.
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux,
| The beautifuls,
|
| A nous les marmites !
| We have the pots!
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| Grandes ou petites
| Big or small
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| V’là les dos, vivent les dos !
| Here come the backs, long live the backs!
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| C’est les dos les gros,
| It's the big backs,
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| Les beaux, | The beautifuls, |