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

Sunday, 6 July 2008

Saturne

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Brassens said this song, which he acknowledged as written for his partner Joha, was one of his favourites. It deals with a major theme of c...

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Tuesday, 29 April 2008

La cane de Jeanne- Brassens Translation

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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...

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Saturday, 26 April 2008

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

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

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Dans l'eau de la claire fontaine

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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...

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Tuesday, 22 April 2008

L'orage - Brassens song with translation

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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...

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Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Les Copains d'Abord

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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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