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Here it comes this old melody, this air everyone used to sing along to, a memory from the past that all the musicians know and dream on as they play it, la chansonnette... Words by Jean Dréjac, Music by Philippe Gérard

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(ENGLISH BELOW)

Lalala, mine de rien
La voilà qui revient
La chansonette.
Elle avait disparue
Le pavé de ma rue
Était tout bête.
Les refrains de paris
Avaient pris le maquis
Les forains, l’Orphéon,
La chanson de Mackie.
Mais on oublie jamais
Le flonflon qui vous fait
Le coeur en fête
Quand le vieux musiciens
Dans le quartier
Vient revoir les anciens
Faire son métier
Le public se souvient
La Chansonette.

Les titis, les marquis,
C’est parti mon kiki,
La chansonette,
À Presley fait du tort
Car tous les transistors
Soudain s’arrêtent.
Sous le ciel de Paris
Un accordéon
Joue la chanson de Mackie
Comme avant le néon
Cueuillie par un flonflon
Un tétard en blouson
D’un franc de violette
Va fleurir sa Bardot
Car malgré son aigle
Au bout du dos
Le coeur est bon
Et sous ses cheveux gris
La chansonette sourit.

.... instrumentale

...car on oublie jamais
le flonflon qui nous fait
le coeur en fête
il faut du temps c’est vrai
pour séparer le bon grain
de l’ivrais et comparer
mais on trouve on beau jour
sa chansonette d’amour.


ENGLISH (Basic translation, by Jean Brassard)

Lalala like nothing
Lalala here she comes
La chansonette.
She had disappeared
The sidewalk on my street
Was all sulking.
The refrains of Paris
Had been thrown out
The gypsies, the Orpheon
Lalala, like a thief
With its old leitmotif (she’s back)
La chansonnette.

But we never forget
The old songs would set
Our hearts on fête
When the old music man
In the neighborhood
Comes to see his old pals
Strumming his tunes
Everyone remembers
La chansonnette.

Hey bikers, businessmen
Do hold on to your hats
La chansonnette
Presley’s now out of the door
And all the radios
Hear the musette.
Under the sky of Paris
An accordion
Plays the song of Mackie
Like before the neon,
To woo this leather stud
Who now buys sweet violette buds
To cajole his Bardot
For in spite of the eagle
On his back
His heart is good
And under her gray hair
The chansonnette does smile.

instrumental...

No we’ll never forget
The old songs that would set
Our hearts on fête
It takes time it’s true
To separate
the fresh herbs from the weed
And pick our mate
But we find one good day.
Our chansonnette of love.

credits

from Le gamin de Paris - Jean Brassard chante Montand, released July 19, 2014
Keyboards - Alexandre Racine; bass - Alexandre Blais; accordion - Richard Maheux; 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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