| Le vin (From "Porte des Lilas") (original) | Le vin (From "Porte des Lilas") (translation) |
|---|---|
| Avant de chanter | Before singing |
| Ma vie, de fair' des | My life of doing |
| Harangues | harangues |
| Dans ma gueul' de bois | In my hangover |
| J’ai tourné sept fois | I turned seven times |
| Ma langue | My tongue |
| J’suis issu de gens | I came from people |
| Qui étaient pas du gen- | Who weren't gen- |
| Re sobre | Re sober |
| On conte que j’eus | It is said that I had |
| La tétée au jus | Breastfeeding juice |
| Mes parents on dû | My parents had to |
| M’trouver au pied d’u- | Find me at the foot of a- |
| Ne souche | Don't strain |
| Et non dans un chou | And not in a cabbage |
| Comm' ces gens plus ou | Like these people more or |
| Moins louches | less shady |
| En guise de sang | As Blood |
| (O noblesse sans | (O nobility without |
| Pareille!) | Same!) |
| Il coule en mon c? | It flows into my heart |
| ur | ur |
| La chaude liqueur | The hot liquor |
| D’la treille… | From the trellis... |
| Quand on est un sa- | When you're a sa- |
| Ge, et qu’on a du sa- | Ge, and that we have sa- |
| Voir-boire | see-drink |
| On se garde à vue | We keep in sight |
| En cas de soif, u- | In case of thirst, u- |
| Ne poire | don't pear |
| Une poire ou deux | A pear or two |
| Mais en forme de | But in the shape of |
| Bonbonne | carboy |
| Au ventre replet | Bellied |
| Rempli du bon lait | Filled with good milk |
| Jadis, aux Enfers | Formerly, in the Underworld |
| Cert’s, il a souffert | Certainly he suffered |
| Tantale | Tantalum |
| Quand l’eau refusa | When the water refused |
| D’arroser ses a- | To water his a- |
| Mygdales | Mygdala |
| Etre assoiffé d’eau | To be thirsty for water |
| C’est triste, mais faut | It's sad, but you have to |
| Bien dire | say well |
| Que, l'être de vin | That, being of wine |
| C’est encore vingt | It's still twenty |
| Fois pire… | Times worse... |
| Hélas ! | Alas! |
| il ne pleut | it's not raining |
| Jamais du gros bleu | Never big blue |
| Qui tache | Who stains |
| Qu’ell’s donnent du vin | Let them give wine |
| J’irai traire enfin | I will finally milk |
| Les vaches | The cows |
| Que vienne le temps | Come the time |
| Du vin coulant dans | Wine flowing in |
| La Seine ! | The Seine! |
| Les gens, par milliers | People, by the thousands |
| Courront y noyer | Will run to drown there |
| Leur peine… | Their pain... |
