Fraternite Lyrics in English Charles Aznavour
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Fraternite by Charles Aznavour from French to English.
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Nous rentrions très tard, mêlant
We returned very late, mixing
Des vers purs à des chants obscènes
From pure verses to obscene songs
Et l'on s'asseyait sur un banc
And we sat on a bench
Pour regarder rêver la Seine
To watch the Seine dream
Sur l'eau rien ne vivait encore
On the water nothing lived yet
Ainsi qu'une ouvrière lasse
Like a tired worker
Pressant sur ses flancs ses fils morts
Pressing his dead sons on his sides
La Seine dormait dans sa crasse
The Seine slept in its filth
Nos cœurs d'ivrognes s'emplissaient
Our drunken hearts were filled
D'une bienfaisante latrie
Of a beneficent latria
Si le soleil, le vent doraient
If the sun and the wind were golden
Les marronniers des Tuileries
The chestnut trees of the Tuileries
Pour mieux évoquer l'ancien soir
To better evoke the old evening
Le plâtre et le vin des tavernes
Plaster and tavern wine
Égayaient nos vieux habits noirs
Brightened up our old black clothes
Et nos plastrons d'hommes modernes
And our modern men's breastplates
Alors, ayant honte vraiment
So, feeling really ashamed
De nous connaître aussi lyriques
To know us so lyrically
Nous offrions un coup de blanc
We offered a shot of white
Aux balayeurs mélancoliques
To the melancholy sweepers
Belle ruse et l'on découvrait
Nice trick and we discovered
Dans le balayeur, un poète
In the sweeper, a poet
Si bien que les verres tremblaient
So that the glasses shook
Sur le comptoir, autel de fête
On the counter, festive altar
Et pour que ce soir sans égal
And so that tonight without equal
Fût perpétué un pandore
Barrel perpetuated a Pandora
On dressait le procès verbal
The minutes were drawn up
Parsemé d'attendus sonores
Sprinkled with sound expectations
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