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, 24 April 2010

La première fille- The first girl that you loved is the last girl that you will forget

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La première fille Once again Brassens sings about the excitement of first love and its eternal charm. When older people reminisce about th...
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La Marguerite- A wild daisy that falls from the priest's prayer book sets evil tongues wagging

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In this simple poem, Brassens describes the hysteria and malice, which is aroused in a parish of traditional believers, when they suspect th...

J'ai rendez-vous avec vous -disregarding all else in the first flush of love

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This lively song, which is often sung with audience participation, tells of a young man’s all absorbing love for his passionate girl-frien...
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Pensees des morts Lamartine's thoughts on the death of loved ones

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This is Georges Brassens at his most serious, putting into a song six verses written by one of France’s very greatest poets, Alphonse de Lam...
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