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

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

La cane de Jeanne- Brassens Translation

The following is a simple Brassens song which a lot of French people know from their primary school days. It tells the true, sad story of...

Saturday, 26 April 2008

Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux Brassens sings Aragon's famous poem of the ambiguity of love.

( Picture left) Elsa, the muse who inspired the poet, Louis Aragon.. The lyrics of Brassens' song are taken from a very famous poem ...

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...

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