La Marche Nuptiale Lyrics in English Georges Brassens

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Marche Nuptiale by Georges Brassens from French to English.
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Mariage d'amour, mariage d'argent
Marriage of love, marriage of money
J'ai vu se marier toutes sortes de gens
I've seen all kinds of people get married
Des gens de basse source
People of low source
Et des grands de la terre
And great people of the earth
Des prétendus coiffeurs
So-called hairdressers
Des soi-disant notaires
So-called notaries
Quand même je vivrai jusqu'à la fin des temps
Still I will live until the end of time
Je garderais toujours le souvenir content
I will always keep the happy memory
Du jour de pauvre noce
Of the poor wedding day
Où mon père et ma mère
Where my father and my mother
S'allièrent épouser
Went to marry
Devant Monsieur le Maire
In front of the Mayor
C'est dans un char à bœufs
It's in an oxcart
S'il faut parler bien franc
If you have to speak very frankly
Tiré par les amis
Shot by friends
Poussé par les parents
Pushed by parents
Que les vieux amoureux
Than old lovers
Firent leurs épousailles
They got married
Après long temps d'amour
After a long time of love
Long temps de fiançailles
Long engagement time
Cortège nuptial hors de l'ordre courant
Wedding procession outside the current order
La foule nous couvait d'un œil protubérant
The crowd stared at us with protruding eyes
Nous étions contemplés
We were contemplated
Par le monde futile
Through the futile world
Qui n'avait jamais vu de noces de ce style
Who had never seen a wedding like this?
Voici le vent qui souffle emportant, crève-cœur
Here is the wind that blows carrying away, heartbreaking
Le chapeau de mon père et les enfants de chœur
My father's hat and the altar boys
Voilà la pluie qui tombe
Here is the rain falling
En pesant bien ses gouttes
By weighing your drops carefully
Comme pour empêcher la noce, coûte que coûte
As if to prevent the wedding, at all costs
Je n'oublierai jamais la mariée en pleurs
I will never forget the crying bride
Berçant comme une poupée
Rocking like a doll
Son gros bouquet de fleurs
Her big bouquet of flowers
Moi, pour la consoler
Me, to console her
Moi, de toute ma morgue
Me, with all my arrogance
Sur mon harmonica jouant les grandes orgues
On my harmonica playing the great organs
Tous les garçons d'honneur, montrant le poing aux nues
All the groomsmen, showing their fists to the skies
Criaient 'par Jupiter, la noce continue!'
Shouted 'by Jupiter, the wedding continues!'
Par les hommes décriée
By men decried
Par les dieux contrariée
By the gods thwarted
La noce continue et Vive la mariée!
The wedding continues and long live the bride!
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