| Les ballons rouges
| The red balloons
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| Qui s´envolent et qui bougent
| Who fly away and who move
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| Dans le ciel au soleil rouge
| In the sky with the red sun
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| Sont des rêves d´enfants
| are children's dreams
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| Les ballons rouges
| The red balloons
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| Qui s´envolent et qui bougent
| Who fly away and who move
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| Font pleurer les enfants
| make the children cry
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| S´ils éclatent dans le vent
| If they burst in the wind
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| Je m´souviens qu´à six ans
| I remember that at six years old
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| Tu regardais un vieux marchand
| You were looking at an old merchant
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| Qui vendait aux autres enfants des ballons
| Who sold other children balloons
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| Tu ouvrais tes yeux tout grands
| You opened your eyes wide
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| Tu voulais depuis longtemps un ballon
| You wanted a ball for a long time
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| Robes rouges et ballon rouges
| Red dresses and red ball
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| Je t´avais offert le mien
| I gave you mine
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| Mais tu as ouvert la main
| But you opened your hand
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| Et là-haut oh oh
| And up there oh oh
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| Ballon s´est envolé
| Balloon flew away
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| Et dans le ciel il s´est noyé
| And in the sky he drowned
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| Et tu t´es mis à pleurer
| And you started crying
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| Le coeur gros
| Big heart
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| Maintenant tu as vingt ans
| Now you are twenty
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| Ne fais plus comme l´enfant
| Don't be like the child anymore
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| Et garde bien mon amour
| And keep my love well
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| Dans ta main
| In your hand
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| Ballon rouge est comme l´amour
| Red balloon is like love
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| Oui il peut s´envoler un jour
| Yes he may fly away one day
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| Et devenir le ballon gris
| And become the gray ball
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| Des chagrins | sorrows |