| Parce que j’aimais la fille du bougnat
| Because I loved the bougnat's daughter
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| Qu’avait de beaux yeux, de beaux seins et les pieds plats…
| That had beautiful eyes, beautiful breasts and flat feet...
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| J’ai tout perdu, triste fortune.
| I lost everything, sad fortune.
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| J’ai pleuréd'amour,
| I wept for love,
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| De faubourg en faubourg.
| From suburb to suburb.
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| J’ai pleuréd'amour au clair de lune…
| I cried of love in the moonlight...
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| Tout seul je loge dans un quartier perdu
| All alone I lodge in a lost neighborhood
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| Au fond d’une petite rue.
| At the end of a small street.
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| J’habite un hôtel borgne, si borgne, si borgne
| I live in a blind hotel, so blind, so blind
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| Que je frémis lorsque, le soir,
| That I shudder when, in the evening,
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| Je vois son oeil qui luit dans le noir.
| I see his eye glowing in the dark.
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| Quand le patron me lorgne, me lorgne, me lorgne,
| When the boss eyeing me, eyeing me, eyeing me
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| J’ai mal au ventre subitement.
| I suddenly have a stomach ache.
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| Je passe ma clef et je fous le camp.
| I pass my key and get the hell out.
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| Coupe-gorge, assassinat,
| Cut throat, assassination,
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| Le crime rôde, rôde, rôde,
| Crime lurks, lurks, lurks,
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| Couleur locale pour cinéma.
| Local color for cinema.
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| Tard dans la nuit, arméd'un grand poignard,
| Late at night, armed with a big dagger,
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| On voit passer Bébert, l’ancien bagnard…
| We see Bébert, the former convict, pass...
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| Il cherche sa brune Andalouse
| He is looking for his Andalusian brunette
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| Qu’a donnéson coeur
| What gave his heart
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| Au fils du percepteur.
| To the tax collector's son.
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| Elle l’a dans la peau, la jalouse…
| She has it in her skin, the jealous one...
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| Mais Bébert les surprend et les tue
| But Bébert surprises them and kills them
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| Au fond d’une petite rue.
| At the end of a small street.
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| J’habite un hôtel borgne, si borgne, si borgne.
| I live in a blind hotel, so blind, so blind.
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| Quand le patron me lorgne, me lorgne, me lorgne,
| When the boss eyeing me, eyeing me, eyeing me
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| Je lui demande: «Comment que ça va?»
| I ask him, "How are you?"
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| Je pose mon chapeau et je reste là.
| I put my hat down and stay there.
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| Le samedi, l’accordéon,
| On Saturdays, the accordion,
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| En ritournelle, chante, chante:
| In refrain, sing, sing:
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| Quand on s’aime, c’est pour de bon… | When we love each other, it's for good... |