Oncle Archibald Lyrics in English Georges Brassens
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Oncle Archibald by Georges Brassens from French to English.
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O vous, les arracheurs de dents
O you tooth pullers
Tous les cafards, les charlatans
All the cockroaches, the charlatans
Les prophètes
The prophets
Comptez plus sur oncle Archibald
Count on Uncle Archibald more
Pour payer les violons du bal
To pay for the violins at the ball
A vos fêtes
At your parties
En courant sus à un voleur
Running after a thief
Qui venait de lui chiper l'heure
Who had just stolen the time
A sa montre
On his watch
Oncle Archibald, coquin de sort!
Uncle Archibald, you rascal!
Fit, de Sa Majesté la Mort
Fit, of His Majesty Death
La rencontre
The encounter
Telle une femme de petite vertu
Like a woman of easy virtue
Elle arpentait le trottoir du
She was pacing the sidewalk of the
Cimetière
Graveyard
Aguichant les hommes en troussant
Alluring men by looking
Un peu plus haut qu'il n'est décent
A little higher than is decent
Son suaire
Her shroud
Oncle Archibald, d'un ton gouailleur
Uncle Archibald, in a cheeky tone
Lui dit: Va-t'en faire pendre ailleurs
Said to him: Go hang somewhere else
Ton squelette
Your skeleton
Fi! Des femelles décharnees!
Fi! Gaunt females!
Vive les belles un tantinet
Long live the beautiful ones a little
Rondelettes!'
Rondettes!'
Lors, montant sur ses grands chevaux
Then, getting on his high horse
La Mort brandit la longue faux
Death brandishes the long scythe
D'agronome
Agronomist
Qu'elle serrait dans son linceul
That she held in her shroud
Et faucha d'un seul coup, d'un seul
And cut down in one fell swoop, in one fell swoop
Le bonhomme
The man
Comme il n'avait pas l'air content
As he didn't seem happy
Elle lui dit: Ça fait longtemps
She said to him: It's been a long time
Que je t'aime
That I love you
Et notre hymen à tous les deux
And both of our hymens
Etait prévu depuis le jour de
Was planned since the day of
Ton baptême
Your baptism
'Si tu te couches dans mes bras
'If you lie down in my arms
Alors la vie te semblera
Then life will seem to you
Plus facile
Easier
Tu y seras hors de portée
You will be out of reach there
Des chiens, des loups, des hommes et des
Dogs, wolves, men and
Imbéciles
Fools
'Nul n'y contestera tes droits
'No one will contest your rights
Tu pourras crier 'Vive le roi!'
You can shout 'Long live the king!'
Sans intrigue
Without plot
Si l'envi' te prend de changer
If you feel like changing
Tu pourras crier sans danger
You can scream without danger
'Vive la Ligue!'
'Long live the League!'
'Ton temps de dupe est révolu
'Your time as a fool is over
Personne ne se paiera plus
No one will pay themselves anymore
Sur ta bête
On your beast
Les 'Plaît-il, maître?' auront plus cours
The 'Would it please, master?' will have more course
Plus jamais tu n'auras à cour-
Never again will you have to run-
Ber la tête'
Rest your head
Et mon oncle emboîta le pas
And my uncle followed suit
De la belle, qui ne semblait pas
Beauty, who didn't seem
Si féroce
So fierce
Et les voilà, bras d'ssus, bras d'ssous
And there they are, arm in arm, arm in arm
Les voilà partis je n' sais où
Here they are gone I don't know where
Faire leurs noces
Make their wedding
O vous, les arracheurs de dents
O you tooth pullers
Tous les cafards, les charlatans
All the cockroaches, the charlatans
Les prophètes
The prophets
Comptez plus sur oncle Archibald
Count on Uncle Archibald more
Pour payer les violons du bal
To pay for the violins at the ball
A vos fêtes
At your parties
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