JAVA PARTOUT Lyrics in English Léo Ferré
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song JAVA PARTOUT by Léo Ferré from French to English.
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Rien qu' des grues qui font le pied de grue
Nothing but cranes acting like cranes
Sur les docks ou les quais
On the docks or quays
Si t' as pas ton ticket
If you don't have your ticket
T' as plus qu'à t' fout' un' tringle
You just have to give a damn
Pour danser la Java des buffets
To dance the Java of buffets
A l'endroit à l'envers
Right side up
A Londr's ou bien Anvers
In London or Antwerp
Pas besoin d'êtr' bilingue
No need to be bilingual
Mais y'a qu'un' manière
But there's only one way
D' causer ma chère
To talk my dear
La monnaie
The currency
Vieux moutons d'Australie
Old Australian sheep
Beau mat'las de Paris
Beautiful mattress from Paris
Fil' ta laine
Thread your wool
A Marseill' à midi
In Marseille at noon
Un cargo m'a souri
A freighter smiled at me
Pour la s'maine
For the week
Il s'en va
He's leaving
A Java
In Java
Dans les bars dans les bars de Java
In the bars in the bars of Java
Les bars de Zanzibar
Zanzibar bars
Ou ceux d' la rue chez moi
Or those from the street at home
Y'a d' la Java qui mousse
There's Java foaming
Dans les yeux les yeux des inconnus
Into the eyes of strangers
Qui tanguent dans la rue
Who sway in the street
Il y'a des filles nues
There are naked girls
Qui s'y regard'nt en douce
Who look at it quietly
Mais y'a qu'un' manière
But there's only one way
D' passer ma chère
To pass my dear
La monnaie
The currency
Les Chin'toqu's, les Ricains
The Chin'toqu's, the Ricans
Les frisés, les rouquins
The curly ones, the redheads
Fil' ta thune
Get your money
A Marseill' sur le quai
In Marseill' on the quay
Y'a un' fill' qui s'ouvrait
There's a girl who opened
Sous la lune
Under the moon
C'est comm'ça
That's how it is
La Java
Java
Rien qu' des phonos qui font les manchots
Nothing but phonographs that make penguins
Dans les boît's où s'emboîtent
In the boxes where they fit
En pilul's ou en watts
In pills or watts
Les anchois d' la musique
The anchovies of music
Et ces phonos vrais ou faux ça va
And these phonographs, true or false, are fine
Jusqu'au moment où ça
Until the moment when it
N' va plus car il faut d' ça
Don't go anymore because that's what you need
Pour fair' la mécanique
To do mechanics
Et puis la manière
And then the way
D' glisser ma chère
To slip my dear
La monnaie
The currency
Vieill's rengain's fill's de paille
Vieill's rengain's straw fill's
Qui se prenn'nt par la taille
Who take each other by the waist
Et s'inversent
And reverse
A Paris, y'a Mimi
In Paris, there's Mimi
Qui a r'mis son pinson
Who put his finch back
Dans l' commerce
In the trade
Pour jouer d' la
To play
D' la Java
From Java
D' la Java
From Java
D' la Java
From Java
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