Below is the lyrics of the song La Chasse Au Papillons , artist - Georges Brassens with translation
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Georges Brassens
Un bon petit diable à la fleur de l'âge
La jambe légère et l'œil polisson
Et la bouche pleine de joyeux ramages
Allait à la chasse aux papillons
Comme il atteignait l’orée du village
Filant sa quenouille, il vit Cendrillon
Il lui dit: «Bonjour, que Dieu te ménage
J’t’emmène à la chasse aux papillons "
Cendrillon, ravie de quitter sa cage
Met sa robe neuve et ses bottillons;
Et bras d’ssus bras d’ssous vers les frais bocages
Ils vont à la chasse aux papillons
Ils ne savaient pas que sous les ombrages
Se cachait l’amour et son aiguillon
Et qu’il transperçait les cœurs de leur âge
Les cœurs des chasseurs de papillons
Quand il se fit tendre, elle lui dit «J'présage
Qu’c’est pas dans les plis de mon cotillon
Ni dans l'échancrure de mon corsage
Qu’on va-t-à la chasse aux papillons "
Sur sa bouche en feu qui criait: «Sois sage !
«Il posa sa bouche en guise de bâillon
Et c’fut le plus charmant des remue-ménage
Qu’on ait vu d’mémoire de papillon
Un volcan dans l'âme, i' r’vinrent au village
En se promettant d’aller des millions
Des milliards de fois, et même davantage
Ensemble à la chasse aux papillons
Mais tant qu’ils s’aimeront, tant que les nuages
Porteurs de chagrins, les épargneront
I f’ra bon voler dans les frais bocages
I' f’ront pas la chasse aux papillons
Pas la chasse aux papillons
A good little devil in his prime
The light leg and the naughty eye
And mouth full of merry song
Went chasing butterflies
As he reached the edge of the village
Spinning his distaff he saw Cinderella
He said to her, "Hello, may God spare you
I'll take you butterfly hunting"
Cinderella, delighted to leave her cage
Puts on her new dress and her booties;
And arm in arms towards the cool groves
They go chasing butterflies
They didn't know that under the shades
Hidden love and its sting
And he pierced the hearts of their age
Butterfly hunter hearts
When he got tender, she told him, "I presage
That it's not in the folds of my petticoat
Nor in the cut of my bodice
How about chasing butterflies"
On his fiery mouth that cried, "Be wise!
"He put his mouth down as a gag
And it was the most charming commotion
That we have seen from butterfly memory
A volcano in the soul, they came back to the village
By promising each other to go millions
Billions of times and even more
Together chasing butterflies
But as long as they love each other, as long as the clouds
Bearers of sorrows, will spare them
I'll be good to fly in the cool groves
I won't chase butterflies
Not chasing butterflies
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