Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sale petit bonhomme, artist - Georges Brassens. Album song Intégrale des albums originaux, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.2009
Record label: Mercury
Song language: French
Sale petit bonhomme(original) |
Sale petit bonhomme, il ne portait plus d’ailes, |
Plus de bandeau sur l'œil et d’un huissier modèle, |
Arborait les sombres habits |
Dès qu’il avait connu le krach, la banqueroute |
De nos affaires de cœur, il s'était mis en route |
Pour recouvrer tout son fourbi. |
Pas plus tôt descendu de sa noire calèche, |
Il nous a dit: «je viens récupérer mes flèches |
Maintenant pour vous superflu’s. |
«Sans une ombre de peine ou de mélancolie, |
On l’a vu remballer la vaine panoplie |
Des amoureux qui ne jouent plus. |
Avisant, oublié', la pauvre marguerite |
Qu’on avait effeuillé', jadis, selon le rite, |
Quand on s’aimait un peu, beaucoup, |
L’un après l’autre, en place, il remit les pétales; |
La veille encore, on aurait crié au scandale, |
On lui aurait tordu le cou. |
Il brûla nos trophé's, il brûla nos reliques, |
Nos gages, nos portraits, nos lettres idylliques, |
Bien belle fut la part du feu. |
Et je n’ai pas bronché, pas eu la mort dans l'âme, |
Quand, avec tout le reste, il passa par les flammes |
Une boucle de vos cheveux. |
Enfin, pour bien montrer qu’il faisait table rase, |
Il effaça du mur l’indélébile phrase: |
«Paul est épris de Virginie. |
«De Virgini', d’Hortense ou bien de Caroline, |
J’oubli' presque toujours le nom de l’héroïne |
Quand la comédie est finie. |
«Faut voir à pas confondre amour et bagatelle, |
A pas trop mélanger la rose et l’immortelle, |
Qu’il nous a dit en se sauvant, |
A pas traiter comme une affaire capitale |
Une petite fantaisie sentimentale |
Plus de crédit dorénavant. |
" |
Ma mi', ne prenez pas ma complainte au tragique. |
Les raisons qui, ce soir, m’ont rendu nostalgique, |
Sont les moins nobles des raisons, |
Et j’aurais sans nul doute enterré cette histoire |
Si, pour renouveler un peu mon répertoire |
Je n’avais besoin de chansons. |
(translation) |
Dirty little guy, he didn't wear wings anymore, |
No more blindfolds and model ushers, |
Wore the dark clothes |
As soon as he had known the crash, the bankruptcy |
Of our affairs of the heart he had set out |
To recover all his stuff. |
No sooner alighted from his black carriage, |
He told us, "I'm coming to get my arrows |
Now for you superfluous's. |
"Without a shadow of sorrow or melancholy, |
We saw him pack up the vain panoply |
Lovers who no longer play. |
Notifying, forgotten', the poor daisy |
That had been stripped, formerly, according to the rite, |
When we loved each other a little, a lot, |
One by one, in place, he replaced the petals; |
The day before, we would have cried foul, |
His neck would have been wrung. |
He burned our trophies, he burned our relics, |
Our pledges, our portraits, our idyllic letters, |
Fine was the share of the fire. |
And I didn't flinch, I didn't have a death in my soul, |
When, with all the rest, he went through the flames |
A curl of your hair. |
Finally, to show that he was making a clean sweep, |
He erased from the wall the indelible phrase: |
“Paul is in love with Virginia. |
"Of Virgini', Hortense or Caroline, |
I almost always forget the name of the heroine |
When the comedy is over. |
"You must not confuse love and trifle, |
Don't mix rose and everlasting too much, |
He said to us as he fled, |
Not to be treated as a capital matter |
A little sentimental fantasy |
More credit from now on. |
" |
Honey, don't take my complaint tragically. |
The reasons that tonight made me nostalgic, |
Are the least noble of reasons, |
And I would have undoubtedly buried this story |
Yes, to refresh my repertoire a bit |
I didn't need songs. |