Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sur la mort d'une cousine de sept ans, artist - Georges Brassens. Album song Brassens chante les poètes, in the genre Эстрада
Date of issue: 13.10.2016
Record label: Mercury
Song language: French
Sur la mort d'une cousine de sept ans(original) |
Hélas, si j’avais su lorsque ma voix qui prêche |
T’ennuyait de leçons, que sur toi rose et fraîche |
L’oiseau noir du malheur planait inaperçu, |
Que la fièvre guettait sa proie et que la porte |
Où tu jouais hier te verrait passer morte |
Hélas, si j’avais su ! |
Enfant, je t’aurais fait l’existence bien douce, |
Sous chacun de tes pas j’aurais mis de la mousse; |
Tes ris auraient sonné chacun de tes instants; |
Et j’aurais fait tenir dans ta petite vie |
Des trésors de bonheur immense à faire envie |
Aux heureux de cent ans. |
Loin des bancs où pâlit l’enfance prisonnière, |
Nous aurions fait tous deux l'école buissonnière. |
Au milieu des parfums et des champs d’alentour |
J’aurais vidé les nids pour emplir ta corbeille; |
Et je t’aurais donné plus de fleurs qu’une abeille |
N’en peut voir en un jour. |
Puis, quand le vieux janvier les épaules drapées |
D’un long manteau de neige et suivi de poupées, |
De magots, de pantins, minuit sonnant accourt; |
Parmi tous les cadeaux qui pleuvent pour étrenne, |
Je t’aurais faite asseoir comme une jeune reine |
Au milieu de sa cour. |
Mais je ne savais pas et je prêchais encore; |
Sûr de ton avenir, je le pressais d'éclore, |
Quand tout à coup pleurant un pauvre espoir déçu, |
De ta petite main j’ai vu tomber le livre; |
Tu cessas à la fois de m’entendre et de vivre |
Hélas, si j’avais su ! |
(translation) |
Alas, if I had known when my preaching voice |
Bored you with lessons, only on you pink and fresh |
The black bird of misfortune hovered unnoticed, |
That fever stalked its prey and the door |
Where you played yesterday would see you pass dead |
Alas, if only I had known! |
As a child, I would have made life very pleasant for you, |
Under each of your steps I would have put moss; |
Your laughs would have sounded your every moment; |
And I would have fit in your little life |
Treasures of Immense Happiness to Envy |
To the happy one hundred years. |
Far from the benches where imprisoned childhood pales, |
We would both have skipped school. |
In the middle of the perfumes and the surrounding fields |
I would have emptied the nests to fill your basket; |
And I would have given you more flowers than a bee |
Can't see it in a day. |
Then when old January with draped shoulders |
With a long coat of snow and followed by dolls, |
Of hoards, of puppets, midnight strikes hastened; |
Among all the gifts that rain down for New Year's Eve, |
I would have made you sit like a young queen |
In the middle of his court. |
But I didn't know and I was still preaching; |
Sure of your future, I urged it to bloom, |
When suddenly crying a poor disappointed hope, |
From your little hand I saw the book fall; |
You ceased both to hear me and to live |
Alas, if only I had known! |