| Un certain temps aux oubliettes
| A time forgotten
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| Sauf pour quelques fanas ttus
| Except for a few ttus fanatics
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| Le voil parti bille en tte
| Here we go ball in the head
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Il avait bti son histoire
| He had built his story
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| Sans publicit superflue
| Without superfluous advertising
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| Pour revivre ses jours de gloire
| To relive its glory days
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Soudain les sceptiques s’inquitent
| Suddenly the skeptics are worried
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| Il n’est donc pas chec et mat
| So it's not checkmate
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| Puisque aussi les jeunes se mettent
| Since also young people put themselves
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| Au scat
| At the scat
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| Bien des musicos rapprennent
| Many musicians relearn
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| A jouer cool et dtendu
| To play cool and relaxed
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| C’est comme un nouveau phnomne
| It's like a new phenomenon
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Bouscul par la concurrence
| Pushed by the competition
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| On pensait son temps rvolu
| We thought our time was over
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| Quand sortant de l’indiffrence
| When emerging from indifference
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Il a connu les controverses
| He knew the controversies
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| Ses dtracteurs sont confondus
| His detractors are confused
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| Car les dserts a se traverse
| 'Cause the deserts a cross
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Chrie suis moi pour un voyage
| Honey follow me on a trip
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| Tout prs de la gare du Nord
| Very close to Gare du Nord
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| Ou a bastonne et dmnage
| Or fight and move
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| A mort
| To death
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| Allez viens ne sois pas bgueule
| Come on don't be silly
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| Tu sortiras convaincue
| You'll walk away convinced
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| On va en prendre plein la gueule
| We're gonna take it all in
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Fini les galres et l’exode
| No more galleys and exodus
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| Fini les disques invendus
| No more unsold records
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| Dans le vent, de toutes les modes
| In the wind, in all fashions
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| Et voil qu’on le catchise
| And here we catch it
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| On le sanctifie doux Jsus
| We sanctify him sweet Jesus
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| Dans les sacro-sainte glises
| In the sacrosanct churches
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| Le jazz est revenu
| Jazz has returned
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| C’est la musique qui m’inspire
| It's the music that inspires me
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| De Frank Ray d’Ella Bing
| By Frank Ray by Ella Bing
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| Et combien d’autres dont j’admire
| And many others whom I admire
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| Le swing
| The swing
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| Sur tout les coins de la plante
| On all corners of the plant
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| Pars de toute les vertus
| Depart from all the virtues
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| Il prend part toutes les ftes
| He takes part in all the feasts
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| Il anime mme la rue
| He animates even the street
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| Connu et reconnu
| Known and Recognized
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| Le jazz
| Jazz
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| Le jazz est revenu | Jazz has returned |