La Petite Kurde Lyrics in English Pierre Perret

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Petite Kurde by Pierre Perret from French to English.
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Petite si tu es kurde, écoute-moi
Small if you are kurdish, listen to me
Il faut partir et quitter ton chez-toi
You have to leave and leave your home
Moi, j'ai connu ton sort
Me, I knew your spell
J'ai tutoyé la mort
I tuned death
On n'a jamais raison contre un soldat
We are never right against a soldier
Ils étaient cent autour de ma maison
They were a hundred around my house
Aux murs, y avait de l'ail et des poivrons
On the walls, there were garlic and peppers
Le vent était si doux
The wind was so soft
Le ciel était si clair
The sky was so clear
Et mon père est tombé dans un éclair
And my father fell into a flash
C'était un matin calme de septembre
It was a calm in September
Ils ont amené ma mère dans la chambre
They brought my mother to the room
Grand-père dans ses mains
Grandfather in his hands
Pleurait comme un enfant
Was crying like a child
Dehors on entendait hurler Maman
Outside we heard how to scream mom
Grand-mère faisait du pain dans la cuisine
Grandmother made bread in the kitchen
Elle s'effondra le nez dans sa farine
She collapsed her nose in her flour
Et sur son cœur éclot
And on his heart hatches
La fleur d'un géranium
The flower of a geranium
Dernier hommage qu'elle ait reçu d'un homme
Last tribute she received from a man
Grand-père à coups de crosse dans le dos
Grandfather with butt in the back
Implora la pitié de ses bourreaux
Implined the pity of his executioners
J'entendais les soldats
I heard the soldiers
Qui riaient tant et plus
Who laughed so much and more
Et Maman sur son lit ne criait plus
And mom on her bed no longer shouted
Puis soudain le soleil s'est endeuillé
Then suddenly the sun started
Les obus éclataient comme des œillets
The shells burst like eyelets
La mort faisait ripaille
Death was ripaille
Jusque dans mon jardin
Even in my garden
Il n'y poussait plus que des orphelins
They only pushed orphans
La pluie qui avait cousu tout l'horizon
The rain that had sewn the whole horizon
Faisait fumer les ruines des maisons
Smoked the ruins of the houses
Et tout en s'éloignant
And while moving away
Du ciel de Babylone
From the sky of Babylon
Je compris que je n'avais plus personne
I understood that I had no one left
N'écoute pas les fous qui nous ont dit
Do not listen to the crazy people who told us
Qu' la liberté est au bout du fusil
That freedom is at the end of the rifle
Ceux qui ont cru ces bêtises
Those who believed these nonsense
Sont morts depuis longtemps
Have been dead for a long time
Les marchands d'armes ont tous de beaux enfants
The merchants of arms all have beautiful children
Depuis la nuit des temps c'est pour l'argent
Since the dawn of time has been for money
Que l'on envoie mourir des pauvres gens
That we send to die of the poor people
Les croyants, la patrie
Believers, the homeland
Prétextes et fariboles
Pretexts and Fariboles
Combien de vies pour un puits de pétrole
How many lives for an oil well
Petite, si tu es kurde, il faut partir
Small, if you are Kurdish, you have to leave
Les enfants morts ne peuvent plus grandir
Dead children can no longer grow
Nous irons en Europe
We will go to Europe
Si tel est notre lot
If this is our lot
Là-bas ils ne tuent les gens qu'au boulot
There they only kill people at work
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