The songs of Georges Brassens (1) with English translation

Ninety of the best-known songs of Georges Brassens with videos of Brassens performing the songs and English translations - also textual and biographical comments

Saturday, 26 April 2008

Dans l'eau de la claire fontaine

This is a light-hearted song about a young girl swimming naked in a country spring. "A la claire fontaine" is one of the multit...

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

L'orage - Brassens song with translation

A sad love song. Brassens tells how a violent thunderstorm thrust into his arms a young wife with whom he experienced a passion that has le...

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Les Copains d'Abord

Les Copains d'Abord is dedicated to the close friends who joined Brassens on boating trips off the South coast of France in a boat call...

Friday, 11 April 2008

Les amours d'antan -His own loves of yesteryear were not at all highborn ladies

Brassens had earlier composed a song, “Ballade des dames du temps jadis”*, based on a famous poem by François Villon, (c. 1431-c. 1463), wh...

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