| Ah c’tait la belle vie avant, quand t’tais aventurier
| Ah it was the good life before, when you were an adventurer
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| Quand t’tais gardien de phare, pilote de F1, catcheur ou bien skieur alpin
| When you were a lighthouse keeper, F1 driver, wrestler or downhill skier
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| Aprs c’tait plus dur, quand t’as t guerillero
| Afterwards it was harder, when you were a guerrilla
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| Pendant que tu faisais banquier, avant-centre et puis dresseur de chameaux.
| While you were banker, center forward and then camel trainer.
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| Maintenant tu es chanteur et tu gagnes pas mal ta vie
| Now you're a singer and you make a pretty good living
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| Mais des fois, quand vient le soir tu t’ennuies
| But sometimes when evening comes you get bored
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| Bernard Lavilliers, mais qu’est-ce que tu vas pouvoir faire?
| Bernard Lavilliers, but what are you going to be able to do?
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| Il ne te reste plus de mtiers faire
| You have no more trades to do
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| Bernard Lavilliers! | Bernard Lavilliers! |
| Ah si, peut-tre bien, obsttricien…
| Ah yes, maybe well, obstetrician...
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| Ah non tu l’as fait en 81.
| Ah no you did it in 81.
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| Un jour tu as revendu la moiti de tes boucles d’oreilles
| One day you sold half your earrings
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| Que t’avaient files des guerilleros
| That the guerrillas had given you
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| (Que t’avais aids pour vaincre la junte militaire en place)
| (That you helped to defeat the military junta in place)
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| Mais le mec qui te les a achetes, il a pas pu repartir avec
| But the guy who bought them for you, he couldn't walk away with them
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| Vu qu’elles taient bien trop lourdes, du coup ben tu les a gardes
| Since they were way too heavy, well you kept them
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| Ca fait une anecdote super marrante raconter
| That makes a super funny story to tell
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| Bon peut-tre nous on raconte mal ou peut-tre c’est toi qui sait raconter
| Well maybe we tell the story badly or maybe it's you who knows how to tell
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| Comme quand t’tais chasseur de tigre et que tu t’es fait bouffer un bras
| Like when you was a tiger hunter and you got your arm eaten out
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| Et que ton bras il a repouss, ouais t’es comme a.
| And your arm he pushed back, yeah you're like that.
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| Bernard Lavilliers, mais qu’est-ce que tu vas pouvoir faire?
| Bernard Lavilliers, but what are you going to be able to do?
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| Il ne te reste plus de mtiers faire
| You have no more trades to do
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| Bernard Lavilliers, peut-tre pilote d’hlicoptre?
| Bernard Lavilliers, perhaps a helicopter pilot?
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| Ah non tu l’as fait avant-hier
| Oh no you did it the day before yesterday
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| Ah la la, une avalanche en Haute-Savoie
| Ah la la, an avalanche in Haute-Savoie
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| Et un barrage qui vient de craquer, faut appeller Bernard Lavilliers
| And a dam that just burst, call Bernard Lavilliers
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| Mais qu’est-ce qu’on va pouvoir faire un volcan vient de rveiller
| But what are we going to do a volcano just woke up
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| Vite appellons Bernard, il aura une ide.
| Quick, let's call Bernard, he'll have an idea.
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| Et mme si il trouve pas, il nous jouera une petite chanson
| And even if he can't find it, he'll play us a little song
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| Et les gens ne seront pas malheureux quand leurs maisons, elles brleront,
| And people won't be unhappy when their houses burn down,
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| Un pied dans une santiag, et un pied dans une tong
| One foot in a cowboy boot, and one foot in a flip-flop
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| Un haltre dans une main, de l’autre il a crit des pomes
| A dumbbell in one hand, the other he wrote poems
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| Il a crit le Coran, le Kama Sutra, les livres de poche
| He wrote the Quran, Kama Sutra, paperbacks
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| Mais a personne peut le prouver part…
| But no one can prove it except...
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| Bernard Lavilliers, t’as dj lu tous les bouquins,
| Bernard Lavilliers, you have already read all the books,
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| Pour en lire un nouveau, il faut que t’en crives un Bernard Lavilliers, t’as mme crit «il tape sur des bambous»
| To read a new one, you have to write one Bernard Lavilliers, you even wrote "he hits bamboo"
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| Mais tu sais a nous on s’en fout
| But you know we don't care
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| T’es un mlange d’Indiana Jones, Lo Ferr, et Garcimore
| You're a mix of Indiana Jones, Lo Ferr, and Garcimore
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| Mais en moins mort
| But less dead
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| Il parat que ton vrai nom c’est Nick Caragua
| I hear your real name is Nick Caragua
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| Et qu’aprs ils ont appel le pays grce toi
| And then they called the country thanks to you
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| Et un jour, si t’es trop muscl et que a devient illgal
| And one day if you're too muscular and it becomes illegal
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| Et si un jour, ils te mettent en taule, moi je viendrai te chercher
| And if one day they put you in jail, I'll come get you
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| Avec tous tes enfants, on se donnera la main
| With all your children, we'll hold hands
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| Et on fera une chane de l’amiti tout autour de la Terre
| And we'll make a chain of friendship all around the earth
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| Bernard Lavilliers, t’as mme connu Mc Gyver l’poque o t’tais coiffeur
| Bernard Lavilliers, you even knew Mc Gyver when you were a hairdresser
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| Bernard Lavilliers, t’es moiti Stphanois et moiti Colombien
| Bernard Lavilliers, you're half Stphanois and half Colombian
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| Et moiti Espagnol et moiti Jamacain,
| And half Spanish and half Jamaican,
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| Et moiti Shaolin et moiti un chef indien,
| And half Shaolin and half an Indian chief,
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| Bernard Lavilliers, et moiti porto-ricain, a on a failli l’oublier. | Bernard Lavilliers, and half Puerto Rican, we almost forgot him. |