| C’est dans Paris y a-t-une brune
| It's in Paris there's a brunette
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| Qu’y est parfaite en beaut?
| What is there perfect in beauty?
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| Qui vit dans l’embarras
| Who lives in embarrassment
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| Si belle et jolie, qu’elle pleura son amant
| So beautiful and pretty, that she wept for her lover
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| Qu’elle pleura son amant sur la perte d’un chat
| That she mourned her lover over the loss of a cat
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| Par un grand jour de f? | On a great day of f? |
| te, cette pauvre b? | you, this poor b? |
| te
| you
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| Fut pris d’un grand mal de t? | Was taken of a great evil of t? |
| te
| you
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| D’une douleur d’estomac
| From stomach pain
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| On lui coupa l’oreille, on lui tranche la merveille
| Cut off his ear, cut off his wonder
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| Le troisi? | The third? |
| me d’un conseil que le chat expira
| advice me that the cat expired
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| En voyant cette carcasse? | Seeing this carcass? |
| tendue sur la place
| tense in the square
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| En gigotant des pattes, attendant son tr? | Wriggling his paws, waiting for his tr? |
| pas
| not
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| Parmi tous ces auteurs
| Among all these authors
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| Parmi tous ces sculpteurs
| Among all these sculptors
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| Un beau bouquet de fleurs sur le pied d’un sofa
| A beautiful bouquet of flowers on the leg of a sofa
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| Il faut aller sur l’enverri?re, le cimeti? | You have to go to the canopy, the cemetery |
| re
| D
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| La grande suite par-derri?re
| The large suite behind
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| Port? | Harbor? |
| e par quatre chats
| e by four cats
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| Quatre chats ben honn? | Four cats, huh? |
| tes
| your
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| Le dos couvert de cr? | The back covered in cr? |
| tes
| your
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| Des gants noirs dans les mains
| Black gloves in the hands
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| Portant les coins du drap
| Carrying the corners of the sheet
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| Qui a compos? | Who composed? |
| la chanson, sont trois gar? | the song, are three guys? |
| ons
| so
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| D? | D? |
| vidant les bouteilles, remplissant les flacons
| emptying the bottles, filling the vials
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| Quand on aura bu de ce bon superflu
| When we've drunk of this good superfluity
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| ? | ? |
| la tonne nous irons
| the ton we will go
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| La champlure nous vid’rons | The champlure we will empty |