Lyrics of Un Étranger - Édith Piaf

Un Étranger (original)

Il avait un air trs doux,
Des yeux rveurs un peu fous
Aux lueurs tranges.
Comme bien des gars du Nord,
Dans ses cheveux un peu d’or,
Un sourire d’ange.
J’allais passer sans le voir
Mais quand il m’a dit bonsoir
D’une voix chantante,
J’ai compris que, ce soir-l,
Malgr la pluie et le froid,
Je serais contente.
Il avait un regard trs doux.
Il venait de je ne sais o.
D’o viens-tu?
Quel est ton nom?
Le navire est ma maison.
La mer mon village.
Mon nom, nul ne le saura.
Je suis simplement un gars
Ardent l’ouvrage
Et si j’ai le cur trop lourd,
Donne-moi donc un peu d’amour,
Espoir de caresses.
Et moi, fille au cur blas,
J’ai senti, sous ses baisers,
Une ardente ivresse.
Il avait un regard trs doux
Il venait de je ne sais o.
Simplement, sans boniments,
J’aimais mon nouvel amant,
Mon poux d’une heure.
Comme bien des malheureux,
Il croyait lire en mes yeux
La femme qu’on pleure
Et, follement, j’esprais
Qu’au matin, il me dirait
Suis-moi je t’emmne.
J’aurais dit oui, je le sens,
Mais il a fui, me laissant
Rive ma chane.
Il avait un regard trs doux.
Il venait de je ne sais o.
J’ai rv de l’tranger
Et, le cur tout drang
Par les cigarettes,
Par l’alcool et le cafard,
Son souvenir chaque soir
M’a tourn la tte
Mais on dit que, prs du port,
On a repch le corps
D’un gars de marine
Qui, par l’amour dlaiss,
Ne trouva pour le bercer
Que la mer cline.
Il avait un regard trs doux.
Il s’en allait je ne sais o

(translation)

He looked very sweet,
Kinda crazy dreamy eyes
With strange lights.
Like many northern lads,
In her hair a little gold,
An angel's smile.
I was going to pass without seeing it
But when he said good evening to me
In a singing voice,
I understood that, that evening,
Despite the rain and the cold,
I would be happy.
He had a very sweet look.
He came from I don't know where.
Where are you from?
What is your name?
The ship is my home.
The sea my village.
My name no one will know.
I'm just a guy
Ardent the work
And if my heart is too heavy,
So give me some love,
Hope for hugs.
And I, girl with a blas heart,
I felt, under his kisses,
A fiery intoxication.
He had a very sweet look
He came from I don't know where.
Simply, without sales pitches,
I loved my new lover,
My one hour lice.
Like many unfortunate people,
He thought he read my eyes
The woman we mourn
And, madly, I hoped
That in the morning he would tell me
Follow me, I'll take you.
I would have said yes, I feel it,
But he fled, leaving me
Live my chain.
He had a very sweet look.
He came from I don't know where.
I dreamed of abroad
And, the whole heart
by cigarettes,
By liquor and cockroach,
Her memory every night
Turned my head
But they say that near the port,
We repch the body
From a navy guy
Who, by the love forsaken,
Didn't find to rock it
Let the sea tilt.
He had a very sweet look.
He was leaving I don't know where