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, 20 January 2009

La chasse aux papillons

La chasse aux papillons Brassens is usually pessimistic about the permanence of human love but in this merry, bawdy song he suggests tha...

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

La non-demande en mariage

The title of this song: “The Non proposal of Marriage” suggests a cynical view of the relationship of a man with a woman. In fact, the song ...

Saturday, 8 November 2008

LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMÉE His strong refusal to win publicity by sacrificing personal privacy

This is Brassens at his most shocking and offensive and he is deliberately so. Apparently he had been advised (in 1960) to liven up his im...

Sunday, 6 July 2008

Saturne

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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