A la Bastille - Patachou

Son papa s’appelle Abraham

Il est l’enfant du macadam

Tout comm' sa môme en est la fille

A la Bastille

A quinze ans a s’app’lait Nini

All' tait grosse et grass' comme un I

A f’sait des travaux à l’aiguille

A la Bastille

Quand alle eut seize ans révolus

A s’app’lait… je n’me rappell' pus

A s’prom’nait autour de la grille

A la Bastille

On la rencontrait tous les soirs

Parfois l'éclat d’ses grands yeux noirs

Faisaient pâlir la lun' qui brille

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Maint’nant a sert dan' eun' maison

Où qu’on boit d’la bière à foison

Et du champagne qui pétille

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Ses tables sont un rendez-vous;

Les jeunes, les vieux y vont tous;

I' faut voir comme a les étrille

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Pour eun' thune a r’tir' son chapeau

Pour deux thun’s a r’tir' son manteau

Pour un sigue on la déshabille

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Alle a pas encore eu d’amant

Alle a qu’son père et sa maman

C’est ell' qui soutient sa famille

A la Bastille

Son papa s’appelle Abraham

Il est l’enfant du macadam

Tout comm' sa môme en est la fille

A la Bastille

His dad's name is Abraham

He is the child of the tarmac

Just like his kid is the girl

At the Bastille

At fifteen, her name was Nini

All was fat and greasy like an I

Has done needlework

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When she was sixteen years old

It was called... I don't remember

A walked around the gate

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We met her every night

Sometimes the sparkle of her big black eyes

Made the shining moon pale

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Now has served in eun' house

Where we drink plenty of beer

And sparkling champagne

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His tables are a rendezvous;

Young, old all go there;

You have to see like the currycomb

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For eun' money took off his hat

For two thun's to take off his coat

For a sigue we undress her

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Alle hasn't had a lover yet

Alle has only her father and her mother

She's the one supporting her family

At the Bastille

His dad's name is Abraham

He is the child of the tarmac

Just like his kid is the girl

At the Bastille