| C’est un' rue
| It's a street
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| C’est un' place
| It's a place
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| C’est même tout un quartier
| It's even a whole neighborhood
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| On en parle, on y passe
| Let's talk about it, let's go
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| On y vient du monde entier
| People come from all over the world
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| Perchée au flanc de Paname
| Perched on the side of Paname
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| De loin elle vous sourit
| From afar she smiles at you
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| Car elle reflète l'âme
| Because it reflects the soul
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| La douceur et l’esprit de Paris
| The sweetness and the spirit of Paris
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| Un p’tit jet d’eau
| A little jet of water
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| Un' station de métro
| A' metro station
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| Entourée de bistrots
| Surrounded by bistros
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| Grands magasins
| Department stores
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| Ateliers de rapins
| Rapine Workshops
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| Restaurants pour rupins
| Restaurants for rupins
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| Là, c’est l’chanteur des carr’fours
| There, it is the singer of the crossroads
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| Qui fredonn' les succès du jour
| Who hums the hits of the day
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| Ici, l’athlète en maillot
| Here, the athlete in the jersey
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| Qui soulèv' les poids d’cent kilos
| Who lifts the weights of a hundred kilos
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| Hôtels meublés
| Furnished hotels
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| Discrèt'ment éclairés
| Discreetly lit
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| Où l’on n’fait que passer
| Where we only pass
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| Et vers minuit
| And around midnight
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| Un refrain qui s’enfuit
| A chorus that runs away
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| D’une boite de nuit
| From a night club
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| On y croise
| We meet there
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| Des visages
| Faces
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| Communs et sensationnels
| Common and Sensational
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| On y parle des langages
| We talk about languages
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| Comme à la tour de Babel
| Like at the Tower of Babel
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| Et quand vient le crépuscule
| And when dusk comes
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| C’est le grand marché d’amour
| This is the big love market
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| C’est le coin où déambulent
| This is the corner where wander
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| Ceux qui prennent la nuit pour le jour
| Those who take the night for the day
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| Girls et mann’quins
| Girls and models
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| Gitan’s aux yeux malins
| Gypsy with the evil eyes
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| Qui lisent dans les mains
| who read hands
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| Clochards, cam’lots
| Tramps, cam'lots
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| Tenanciers de bistrots
| Bistro owners
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| Trafiquants de coco
| Coconut smugglers
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| P’tit’s femm’s qui vous sourient
| Little women who smile at you
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| En vous disant: «Tu viens chéri «Et Prosper qui dans un coin
| Saying to you, "You come darling" And Prosper who in a corner
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| Discrèt'ment surveill' son gagn' pain
| Discreetly watching his earning
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| Un p’tit jet d’eau
| A little jet of water
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| Un' station de métro
| A' metro station
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| Entourée de bistrots
| Surrounded by bistros
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| Pigalle
| Pigalle
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| Ça vit, ça gueul'
| It lives, it screams
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| Les gens diront c’qu’ils veul’nt
| People will say what they want
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| Mais au monde y a qu’un seul
| But in the world there is only one
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| Pigalle | Pigalle |