Les amis de la musique Lyrics in English Brigitte Bardot
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Les amis de la musique by Brigitte Bardot from French to English.
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De l'accent grave a l'excentrique
From the serious accent to the eccentric
Sont venus jusquau fond de ma cour
Have come all the way to the bottom of my yard
Avec un soixante-dix-huit tours dune autre époque
With a seventy-eight laps from another era
Me dire bonjour
Saying hello to me
Des visites je nen ai plus
Visits I don't have any more
A part quelques vieux farfelus
Except for a few wacky old men
Qui viennent parler du temps passe
Who come to talk about time passes
Sur mes instruments pleurnicher
On my instruments whining
Comme si la jeunesse oubliée
As if forgotten youth
Ne sétait pas bien amusée
Wasn't having a good time
Je suis le jazz de un-mill-neuf-cent-vignt-cinq
I'm the jazz of one-mill-nine-cent-vignt-five
Et fait chanter des airs
And makes sing tunes
Pour que lon trinque
For lon to toast
Eléonore est devenue grand-mère
Eleonore became a grandmother
Ne pourrait encore faire
Couldn't do it yet
Quelques pas pour vous plaire
A few steps to please you
Le vieux jazz ramène son trombone
Old jazz brings back its trombone
Vers la peau dun banjo qui sonne
To the skin of a banjo that rings
Mill-neuf-cent-vignt-cinq se prend les pieds dans un gramophone enrhumé
Mill-nine-hundred-vignt-five gets caught in a cold gramophone
Qui pavillonne et poumonne et
Who is pavilion and lung and
Tous les amoureux du ragtime
All ragtime lovers
Ont cherche une rime en aïe
Have looking for a rhyme in aye
Mill-neuf-cent-vignt-cinq a foutu l'camp vers le jazmoderne et
Mill-nine-hundred-vignt-five has turned the camp towards the jazmodern and
Pourtant quand le trombone
Yet when the trombone
Fait son beuglant
Makes his bellowing
On est encore dans létonnement
We're still in the air
Je suis le jazz de un-mill-neuf-cent-vignt-cinq
I'm the jazz of one-mill-nine-cent-vignt-five
Et fait chanter des airs
And makes sing tunes
Pour que lon trinque
For lon to toast
Eléonore est devenue grand-mère
Eleonore became a grandmother
Ne pourrait encore faire
Couldn't do it yet
Quelques pas pour vous plaire
A few steps to please you
Les amis de la musique
Friends of music
De l'accent grave a l'excentrique
From the serious accent to the eccentric
Contents davoir fait plaisir aux vieux
Glad to have pleased the old
Sont repartis vers dautres lieux
Returned to other locations
En emportant de ce temps-la
By taking it from that time
La preuve quil ne vieillit pas
Proof that it is not aging
La preuve quil ne vieillit pas
Proof that it is not aging
La preuve quil ne vieillit pas
Proof that it is not aging
La preuve quil ne vieillit pas
Proof that it is not aging
La preuve quil ne vieillit pas
Proof that it is not aging
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