Below is the lyrics of the song L'amandier (From "Porte des Lilas") , artist - Georges Brassens with translation
Original text with translation
Georges Brassens
J’avais l’plus bel amandier
Du quartier
Et, pour la bouche gourmande
Des filles du monde entier
J' faisais pousser des amandes:
Le beau, le joli métier !
Un écureuil en jupon
Dans un bond
Vint me dir': «Je suis gourmande
Et mes lèvres sentent bon
Et, si tu m’donn’s une amande
J’te donne un baiser fripon !
— Grimpe aussi haut que tu veux
Que tu peux
Et tu croqu’s, et tu picores
Puis tu grignot’s, et puis tu
Redescends plus vite encore
Me donner le baiser dû !»
Quand la belle eut tout rongé
Tout mangé…
«Je te paierai, me dit-elle
A pleine bouche quand les
Nigauds seront pourvus d’ailes
Et que tu sauras voler !
«Mont' m’embrasser si tu veux
Si tu peux…
Mais dis-toi que, si tu tombes
J’n’aurai pas la larme à l’oeil
Dis-toi que, si tu succombes
Je n’porterai pas le deuil !»
Les avait, bien entendu
Toutes mordues
Tout’s grignoté's, mes amandes
Ma récolte était perdue
Mais sa joli' bouch' gourmande
En baisers m’a tout rendu !
Et la fête dura tant
Qu’le beau temps…
Mais vint l’automne, et la foudre
Et la pluie, et les autans
Ont changé mon arbre en poudre…
Et mon amour en mêm' temps !
I had the most beautiful almond tree
Neighborhood
And, for the greedy mouth
Girls all over the world
I was growing almonds:
The beautiful, the pretty job!
A squirrel in a petticoat
In a leap
Came to tell me, "I'm greedy
And my lips smell good
And, if you give me an almond
I give you a cheeky kiss!
— Climb as high as you want
that you can
And you bite, and you peck
Then you nibble's, and then you
Come back down even faster
Give me the kiss due!"
When beauty had gnawed everything
Ate it all...
"I'll pay you," she told me
With full mouth when the
Boobies will be provided with wings
And that you will know how to fly!
'Mont' kiss me if you want
Whether you can…
But tell yourself that if you fall
I won't have tears in my eyes
Tell yourself that if you succumb
I won't mourn!"
Of course had them
All bitten
Everything's nibbled's, my almonds
My harvest was lost
But her pretty greedy mouth
In kisses gave me back everything!
And the party lasted so long
That the good weather...
But came the fall, and the lightning
And the rain, and the autans
Turned my tree to powder...
And my love at the same time!
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