| Y a qu' des musiques américaines
| There's only American music
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| Dans les bistrots et les cinés
| In pubs and cinemas
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| Qui c’est qui t’a assassinée
| Who murdered you
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| Ma rengaine?
| My catchphrase?
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| Y a des maracas par douzaines
| There are dozens of maracas
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| Embusquées dans les TSF
| Ambushed in the TSF
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| Mais toi, on t’entend plus bézef
| But you, we can't hear you anymore, bézef
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| Ma rengaine
| My catchphrase
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| Tu tournais à trois temps dans les bals du dimanche
| You were spinning three times at Sunday balls
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| Près du bar fabriqué avec cinq ou six planches
| Near the bar made with five or six planks
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| Tu chantais dans l' soufflet d’un vieil accordéon
| You were singing in the bellows of an old accordion
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| Au carrefour qu'était pas éclairé au néon
| At the crossroads that wasn't neon lit
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| Et pis voilà, t’as pas eu d' veine
| And that's it, you weren't lucky
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| T’en savais trop, on t’a butée
| You knew too much, you were killed
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| Te voilà morte et enterrée
| There you are dead and buried
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| Ma rengaine
| My catchphrase
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| J' t’avais connue un jour de peine
| I had known you on a day of sorrow
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| Un homme venait de me quitter
| A man had just left me
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| Toi, tu m’as tout d' suite consolée
| You, you consoled me right away
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| Ma rengaine
| My catchphrase
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| Tu t’es amenée comme ça, sans gêne
| You came like that, without embarrassment
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| Pour me r’filer un grand frisson
| To give me a big thrill
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| Le long du dos, là où c’est bon
| Along the back where it feels good
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| Ma rengaine
| My catchphrase
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| J’avais perdu mon gars, un autre reviendrait
| I had lost my guy, another one would come back
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| Ça s’rait d' nouveau la fête, le samedi du muguet
| It would be party time again, Lily of the Valley Saturday
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| Tu m' racontais tout ça de ta voix caressante
| You told me all about it in your caressing voice
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| En m' prenant par le bras pour remonter ma pente
| Taking me by the arm to go up my slope
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| Mais le jazz est là qui s' déchaîne
| But the jazz is there unleashed
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| Et j' t’entends plus, j’entends plus rien
| And I don't hear you anymore, I don't hear anything anymore
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| Me laisse pas seule, file-moi ta main | Don't leave me alone, give me your hand |