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A wonderful ride in the French country side in which a clan of young boys pursue the love of their lives... Paulette! Only Montand and Brassard have recorded this fieldtrip. Words by PIerre Barouh - Music by Francis Lai

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(ENGLISH BELOW)

Quand nous partions de bon matin
Quand nous partions sur les chemins
À bicyclette
Nous étions quelques bons copains
Y'avait Fernand, y'avait Firmin
Y'avait Francis et Sébastion
Et puis Paulette.

Nous étions tous amoureux d'elle
On se sentait pousser des ailes
À bicyclette
Sur les petits chemins de terre
On a souvent vécu l'enfer
Pour ne pas mettre pied à terre
Devant Paulette.

Faut dire qu'elle y mettait du coeur
C'était la fille du facteur
À bicyclette
Et depuis qu'elle avait huit ans
Elle avait fait en le suivant
Tous les chemins environnants
À bicyclette

Quand on approchait la rivière
On déposait dans les fougères
Nos bicyclettes
Puis on se roulait dans les champs
Faisant naître un bouquet changeant
De sauterelles, de papillons et de raînettes.

Quand le soleil à l'horizon
Profilait sur tous les buissons
Nos silhouettes
On revenait fourbu, content
Le coeur un peu vague pourtant
De n'être pas un seul instant
Avec Paulette
Prendre furtivement sa main,
Laisser un peu là les copains
Nos bicyclettes,
On se disait "c'est pour demain,
J'oserai, j'oserai demain,
Quand on ira sur les chemins
À bicyclette."

ENGLISH (Translated by Jean Brassard & David Krueger)

When we all left at break of day
We climbed along the old pathway
A bicyclette. (on our bicycles)
We were a few, a little band
There was Fernand, there was Firmin
There was Francis and Sebastian
And then Paulette.

Each of our hearts she played like strings
We felt like we were growing wings
On bicyclette
As we peddled toward the dell
We often lived a kind of hell
Not to set foot and face the spell
Of dear Paulette.

Truly she laughed at us aside
The postman taught her how to ride
A bicyclette.
Since she was only eight years old
She followed dad and so thy rode
On every single little road
On bicyclette.

When we came by the waterfall
The bowing ferns would smooth the fall
Of our bicyclettes.
Then we rolled around in the fields
Making her a bouquet of dreams
With butterflies, grasshoppers, flees,
Wild violettes.











When the rays of the setting sun
Profiled on bushes one by one
Our bicyclette,
We came back rundown and happy
Our hearts a bit melancholy
Not to have been alone only
With sweet Paulette.

Never took stealthily her hand
To forget the rest of the band
Our bicyclettes
We cheered ourselves for the next day
Yes, tomorrow would be my day
As we climb up the old pathway
A bicyclette.

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from Le gamin de Paris - Jean Brassard chante Montand, released July 19, 2014
Keyboards - Alexandre Racine; Bass - Alexandre Blais; Percussions - Pierre Emmanuel Beaudoin.
Vocals: Jean Brassard

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Bistro Award winner singer-actor Jean Brassard recently seen in The Fault In Our Stars hails from both Quebec & New York. Brassard provides an exquisite updated tribute to Yves Montand, one of France's most pioneering stars and pillar of French chansons. A first rate tribute to the man as well as select composers and lyricists from Montand's sparklingly eclectic catalogue. New songs to come soon! ... more

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