Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Bicentenaire, artist - Jean Ferrat. Album song L'intégrale Temey - 195 chansons, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 28.11.2010
Record label: TEME
Song language: French
Bicentenaire(original) |
J’ai vu des ducs, j’ai vu des princes, des barons, des comtes, des rois |
Des marquises la taille mince qui dansaient au son des hautbois |
Dans des chteaux pleins de lumire o les ftes resplendissaient |
O l’on chantait «Il Pleut Bergre» dans le velours et dans la soie |
Mais dans sa chaumire, mais dans sa chaumire |
Je n’ai pas vu pauvre Martin |
Pauvre Martin, pauvre misre, avec sa femme et ses gamins |
J’ai trembl devant la colre, des va-nu-pieds, des paysans |
Renversant l’ordre millnaire dans la fureur et dans le sang |
J’ai vu la terreur apparatre, les chteaux partir en fume |
Les dlateurs rgner en matres dans une France sans piti |
Mais dans sa chaumire, mais dans sa chaumire |
Je n’ai pas vu pauvre Martin |
Pauvre Martin, pauvre misre, tremblant de froid, mourant de faim |
J’ai frmi pour ces grandes dames, ces beaux seigneurs si mouvants |
Qui montraient tant de grandeur d’me, de noblesse de sentiments |
Avant que leurs ttes grimacent au bout des piques acres |
Agites par la populace des sans-culottes avins |
Mais dans sa chaumire, mais dans sa chaumire |
Je n’ai pas vu pauvre Martin |
Pauvre Martin, pauvre misre, creusant la terre de ses mains |
Deux sicles aprs quatre-vingt-neuf, il fallait oser l’inventer |
A la tl, on fait du neuf en acquittant la royaut |
Deux sicles aprs quatre-vingt-neuf |
D’autres seigneurs veillent au grain |
Et toi qui vivais comme un bњuf, ce sont tes matres que l’on plaint |
six pieds sous terre, ton bicentenaire, ils l’ont enterr bel et bien |
Pauvre Martin, pauvre misre, c’est toujours le peuple qu’on craint |
Pauvre Martin, pauvre misre, c’est toujours le peuple qu’on craint. |
(translation) |
I've seen dukes, I've seen princes, barons, earls, kings |
Thin-waisted marquises who danced to the sound of oboes |
In castles full of light where the holidays shone |
Where we sang "It's Raining Bergre" in velvet and in silk |
But in his cottage, but in his cottage |
I haven't seen poor Martin |
Poor Martin, poor misre, with his wife and his kids |
I trembled in front of the anger, of the barefoot, of the peasants |
Overthrowing the millennial order in fury and blood |
I saw the terror appear, the castles go up in smoke |
The informers reign as masters in a merciless France |
But in his cottage, but in his cottage |
I haven't seen poor Martin |
Poor Martin, poor misre, shivering with cold, starving |
I shuddered for these great ladies, these beautiful lords so moving |
Who showed so much greatness of soul, nobility of feelings |
Before their heads wince at the end of the acre spikes |
Agitated by the populace of avian sans-culottes |
But in his cottage, but in his cottage |
I haven't seen poor Martin |
Poor Martin, poor misre, digging the earth with his hands |
Two centuries after eighty-nine, we had to dare to invent it |
On tl, we're doing something new by acquitting royalty |
Two centuries after eighty-nine |
Other lords keep watch |
And you who lived like an ox, it's your masters that we pity |
six feet under, your bicentenary, they buried it well and truly |
Poor Martin, poor misre, it's always the people we fear |
Poor Martin, poor misre, it's always the people we fear. |