| Question d’histoire d’abord
| History question first
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| Où est la Palestine?
| Where is Palestine?
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| Sous quelle botte étoilée?
| Under what starry boot?
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| Derrière quels barbelés?
| Behind what barbed wire?
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| Sous quel champ de ruines?
| Under what field of ruins?
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| Question d’histoire encore
| Question of history again
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| Combien de victimes
| How many victims
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| Combien de milliers d’enfants
| How many thousands of children
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| Dans les décombres des camps
| In the rubble of the camps
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| Deviendront combattants?
| Will become fighters?
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| J’en sais rien
| I don't know
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| J’donne ma langue au chagrin
| I give my tongue to sorrow
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| Si tu sais, toi
| If you know, you
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| Souffle-moi
| Blow me
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| Question d’géographie
| question of geography
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| Où est la Kanaky?
| Where is Kanaky?
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| Combien de flics, de soldats
| How many cops, soldiers
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| Pour tenir Nouméa
| To hold Nouméa
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| Pour flinguer Eloi?
| To shoot Eloi?
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| Combien de petits blancs
| How many little whites
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| De colons arrogants
| Arrogant Settlers
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| Se partagent la terre?
| Share the land?
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| Et combien de misère?
| And how much misery?
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| Pour le peuple Kanak
| For the Kanak people
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| Combien de coups de matraque?
| How many truncheons?
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| J’en sais rien
| I don't know
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| J’donne ma langue au chagrin
| I give my tongue to sorrow
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| Si tu sais, toi
| If you know, you
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| Souffle-moi
| Blow me
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| Question de sport
| sports question
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| Qui détiendra le record?
| Who will hold the record?
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| Et restera vivant
| And will stay alive
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| Libre et innocent
| Free and innocent
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| Derrière des barreaux?
| Behind bars?
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| Vingt ans pour Otelo
| Twenty years for Otelo
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| Autant pour Mandela
| So much for Mandela
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| Et combien de hors-la-loi?
| And how many outlaws?
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| Chez ces p’tits juges en bois
| At those little wooden judges
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| Dont on fait les salauds?
| What the bastards do we do?
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| J’en sais rien
| I don't know
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| J’donne ma langue au chagrin
| I give my tongue to sorrow
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| Si tu sais, toi
| If you know, you
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| Souffle-moi
| Blow me
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| Question science et nature
| Question science and nature
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| Où balancer ces ordures?
| Where to throw this garbage?
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| Allez, à la Vologne !
| Come on, Vologne!
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| Ces chiens qui assassinent
| These dogs that murder
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| Ces rats qui emprisonnent
| These rats that imprison
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| Question d’littérature
| question of literature
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| Qui a écrit que les hommes
| Who wrote that men
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| Naissaient libres et égaux?
| Were born free and equal?
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| Libres mais dans le troupeau
| Free but in the herd
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| Égaux devant les bourreaux
| Equal before the executioners
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| J’en sais rien
| I don't know
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| J’donne ma langue au chagrin
| I give my tongue to sorrow
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| Si tu sais, toi
| If you know, you
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| Souffle-moi/ x3 | Blow me/ x3 |