Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Les cerises de monsieur Clément, artist - Michel Fugain.
Date of issue: 07.01.1990
Song language: French
Les cerises de monsieur Clément(original) |
Un certain Clément Jean Baptiste |
Qui habitait rue Saint-Vincent |
Voulant écrire un compliment |
Trempa sa plume dans le sang |
Qu’elles étaient rouges les cerises |
Que nous chantait Monsieur Clément |
C'était plus beau qu’un Evangile |
C'était des mots de maintenant |
Mais il faudrait que nos enfants |
N’attendent pas comme on attend |
Qu’elles mûrissent les cerises |
Que nous chantait Monsieur Clément |
Bien sûr c’est difficile |
De mourir quand on a vingt ans |
Mais pour quelques cerises |
Que ne ferait-on au printemps |
De République en République |
Toujours cocu toujours content |
On applaudit les bons truands |
Au ventre rond au ventre blanc |
Qui nous revendent les cerises |
Qu’avait rêvé Monsieur Clément |
Tous ces pontifes des Eglises |
Tous ces suiveurs de régiments |
Voudront nous manger tout vivant |
Mais ils se casseront les dents |
Sur les noyaux de ces cerises |
Du verger de Monsieur Clément |
Bien sûr c’est difficile |
De mourir quand on a vingt ans |
Mais pour quelques cerises |
Que ne ferait-on au printemps |
(translation) |
A certain Clement Jean Baptiste |
Who lived in rue Saint-Vincent |
Want to write a compliment |
Dipped his feather in blood |
That they were red the cherries |
That Monsieur Clément sang to us |
It was more beautiful than a Gospel |
Those were words of now |
But our children should |
Don't wait like we wait |
Let the cherries ripen |
That Monsieur Clément sang to us |
Of course it is difficult |
To die when you're twenty |
But for a few cherries |
What wouldn't we do in the spring |
From Republic to Republic |
Always cuckold always happy |
We applaud the good mobsters |
Round-bellied white-bellied |
Who sell us the cherries |
What had Monsieur Clément dreamed of |
All these pontiffs of the Churches |
All these regimental followers |
Will want to eat us alive |
But they'll break their teeth |
On the pits of these cherries |
From Monsieur Clement's Orchard |
Of course it is difficult |
To die when you're twenty |
But for a few cherries |
What wouldn't we do in the spring |