| Tu joues tu joues d' l’accordéon
| You play you play the accordion
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| Dans un bistrot qui n’a plus d' nom
| In a bistro that no longer has a name
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| Tell’ment les gens sont habitués à y danser
| So people are used to dancing there
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| La comparsita
| La comparsita
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| Que tu leur joues toutes les nuits
| That you play them every night
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| Pour un salair' qui fait pas d’bruit
| For a salary that makes no noise
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| Car ton métier c’est d' fair' danser
| Because your job is to make people dance
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| C’est d' fair' danser
| It's to make people dance
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| Mister Giorgina
| Mister Giorgina
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| Que ton biniou brill' comm' le jour
| May your bagpipe shine like the day
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| Ou qu’il soit noir comm' les amours
| Or that it is black like the loves
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| Qui sur la piste vont chercher
| Who on the trail will seek
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| De quoi rêver de quoi danser
| What to dream about what to dance
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| La comparsita
| La comparsita
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| Toi tu t’en fous car ton métier
| You don't care because your job
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| C’est d' fair' danser mais pas d' penser
| It's to make people dance but not to think
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| Fais ta série voilà ta vie
| Do your show, here's your life
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| Voilà ta vie
| This is your life
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| Mister Giorgina
| Mister Giorgina
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| «Ta vie… ma vie… leur vie…»
| "Your life...my life...their life..."
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| Un jour t’auras les cheveux blancs
| One day you will have white hair
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| Ceux qui vienn’nt tard qui vienn’nt sûr'ment
| Those who come late who come surely
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| Tu te r’touv’ras d’vant ton buffet
| You will find yourself in front of your buffet
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| Pour y danser pour y danser
| To dance there To dance there
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| La comparsita
| La comparsita
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| Que tu jouais dans un beuglant
| That you were playing in a howler
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| Pour un salair' qu’a foutu l’camp
| For a salary that got the hell out
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| Les autr’s dansaient toi tu bouffais
| The others were dancing, you were eating
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| Toi tu bouffais
| You were eating
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| Mister Giorgina
| Mister Giorgina
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| Alors avant qu’il n’soit trop tard
| So before it's too late
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| Planq’ton magot dans ton placard
| Stash your nest egg in your closet
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| Les fourmis c’est fait pour bosser
| Ants are made to work
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| Quant aux cigal’s ell’s vont danser
| As for the cigals, they will dance
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| La comparsita
| La comparsita
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| Car la musiqu' foutu métier
| Because the music 'damn business
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| Ca chante ça gueul' ça fait rêver
| It sings, it yells, it makes you dream
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| Et ça s’envol' comm' les paroles
| And it flies away like the lyrics
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| Comm' les paroles
| Like the lyrics
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| Mister Giorgina
| Mister Giorgina
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| «Ca s’envole? | “Is it flying? |
| Pas toujours…
| Not always…
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| …Née de tango inconnu …»
| …Born of unknown tango…”
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| Toi les frangin’s qui vienn’nt guincher
| You brothers who come to guincher
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| Avant d’se fair' comparsiter
| Before being 'appeared'
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| Tu les regarde (s) avec tes doigts
| You look at them with your fingers
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| T’as l’oeil qui joue en Do en fa
| You have the eye that plays in C in F
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| La comparsita
| La comparsita
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| Au fond ça toi tu t’en fous
| Deep down you don't care
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| T’as qu’un copain c’est ton biniou
| You only have one friend, it's your biniou
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| Tu joues Schubert mais c’est plus cher
| You play Schubert but it's more expensive
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| Mais c’est plus cher
| But it's more expensive
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| Mister giorgina
| Mister Georgina
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| Un piano c’est comm' l’horizon
| A piano is like the horizon
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| Ca joue tout à l’horizontale
| It plays everything horizontal
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| Toi ton piano et ses flonflons
| You your piano and its blare
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| Tu les fous à la verticale
| You do them vertical
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| Sur comparsita
| On comparsita
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| Et dans la rue tes récitals
| And in the street your recitals
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| Des fois ça nous fait un peu mal
| Sometimes it hurts us a little
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| Avec ton Pleyel en sautoir
| With your Pleyel in the necklace
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| Yel-en-sautoir
| Yel-en-sautoir
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| Mister Giorgina
| Mister Giorgina
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| «Ca nous fait un peu mal… La Musique
| “It hurts us a bit… The Music
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| Fini ! | Finished ! |
| La Musique ! | The music ! |
| En l’an 2000 plus d’Musique !
| In the year 2000 more Music!
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| Et pourtant c'était beau… jean Sébastien Bach, Tu connais ?» | And yet it was beautiful… John Sebastian Bach, Do you know?” |