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Bernard Dimey wrote the lyric of this beautiful ballad on Henri Salvador's music for this meditation on traveling, a daydream of all the places one could go to in life and make some memories to bring back home to Paree.

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(ENGLISH BELOW)

J’aimerais tant voir Syracuse
L’ile de Paques et Kerouan
Et les grands oiseaux qui s’amusent
A glisser l’aile sous le vent.

Voir les jardins de Babylone
Et le palais du Grand Lama
Rêver des amants de Vérone
Au sommet du Fujiyama.

Voir le pays du matin calme
Aller pêcher au cormoran
Et m’ennivrer de vin de palme
En écoutant chanter le vent.

Avant que ma jeunesse s’use
Et que mes printemps soient partis
J’aimerais tant voir Syracuse
Pour m’en souvenir à Paris.

ENGLISH (Translated by David Krueger & Jean Brassard)

I’d like to go see Syracuse now
The
Eastern Islands and Kairouan
Watch big birds soaring and admire how
They turn on wing to glide along.


In Babylon, see hanging gardens 

The palace of Dalai Lama
Dream of the lovers of Verona
Atop the great Fujiyama. 



View morning skies in ancient countries
Go dive for fish like cormorant
Get drunk on wine that’s drawn from palm trees
While sailing on a breeze’s song.



Before my youth is disappearing
Before my Spring times part from me
I want to go see Syracuse and
Collect my souvenirs for Paris.

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from Le gamin de Paris - Jean Brassard chante Montand, released July 19, 2014
Keyboards - Alexandre Racine; bass - Alexandre Blais; guitar - Eric Savard; percussions - Pierre-Emmanuel Beaudoin; harmonica - Jean Brassard
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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