| Mon pote le gitan c´est un gars curieux
| My friend the gypsy is a curious guy
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| Une gueule toute noire, des carreaux tout bleus
| An all-black face, all-blue squares
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| Il reste des heures sans dire un seul mot
| He goes hours without saying a single word
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| Assis près du poêle au fond du bistrot
| Sitting by the stove in the back of the bistro
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| C´gars-là une roulotte s´promène dans sa tête
| This guy, a trailer is walking around in his head
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| Et quand elle voyage jamais ne s´arrête
| And when she travels never stops
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| Des tas d´paysages sortent de ses yeux
| Lots of landscapes come out of his eyes
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| Mon pote le gitan c´est un gars curieux
| My friend the gypsy is a curious guy
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| Mon pote le gitan, c´est pas un marrant
| My friend the gypsy, it is not a funny
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| Et dans notre bistrot personne le comprend
| And in our bistro nobody understands it
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| Comme tous ces gars-là il a sa guitare
| Like all these guys he has his guitar
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| Une guitare crasseuse qui vous colle le noir
| A grimy guitar that sticks the black on you
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| Quand y s´met à jouer la vieille roulotte
| When it starts to play the old trailer
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| Galope dans sa tête, les joueurs de belote
| Galloping in his head, belote players
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| S´arrêtent et plus rien… on a mal en dedans
| Stop and nothing... it hurts inside
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| Mon pote le gitan c´est pas un marrant
| My friend the gypsy is not a funny
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| Mon pote le gitan un jour est parti
| My homie the gypsy one day is gone
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| Et Dieu seul sait où il ballade sa vie
| And only God knows where he wanders his life
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| Ce type là était un grand musicien
| This guy was a great musician
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| Ça j´en étais sûr, moi je l´sentais bien
| I was sure of that, I felt good about it
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| Le tôlier m´a dit qu´on est venu l´chercher
| The sheet metal worker told me that we came to get him
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| Un grand music-hall voulait l´acheter
| A big music hall wanted to buy it
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| Mon pot´ le gitan il a refusé
| My friend the gypsy he refused
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| Un haussement d´épaules et il s´est taillé?
| A shrug and he's cut?
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| J´ai eu l´impression de perdre un ami
| I felt like I lost a friend
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| Et pourtant c´gars-là ne m´a jamais rien dit
| And yet that guy never said anything to me
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| Mais il m´a laissé un coin de sa roulotte
| But he left me a corner of his trailer
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| Et dans ma petite tête j´ai du rêve qui trotte
| And in my little head I have dreams running around
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| Sa drôle de musique en moi est restée
| His funny music in me stayed
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| Quand je pense à lui, m´arrive de chanter
| When I think of him, I happen to sing
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| Toi sacré gitan qui sentait l´cafard
| You holy gypsy who smelled of cockroaches
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| Au fond ta musique était pleine d´espoir | Deep down your music was full of hope |