Below is the lyrics of the song Le ros lulu , artist - Juliette Gréco with translation
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Juliette Gréco
Dans Paris tout bleu, sous la lune, un soir de juin
Elle marchait en somnambule, les yeux lointains
Mais ni Paris bleu ni la lune n’existaient pour elle, ce soir-là
Chagrin d’amour ou peur de vivre?
Elle avait seize ans
Lui, il flânait en solitaire, le gros Lulu
Un peu rond et la cinquantaine peut-être plus
Il serait passé sans rien dire mais quelque chose l’arrêta
Ce désespoir à la dérive, il l’aborda
Devant son air triste, il parla, des mots gentils
Elle ne l'écouta même pas mais le suivit
Elle aurait bien suivi le diable, alors pourquoi pas celui-là
Elle lui trouva l’air d’un bon diable, il l’amena
L’avait une maison de riche, le gros Lulu
Il y amena cette biche aux yeux perdus
Elle ne raconta pas sa vie, il ne la lui demanda pas
Mais comme on fait pour une reine, il l’installa
Pour la guérir, il l’entoura de mille soins
Il cueillit les plus belles roses de son jardin
Pour lui redonner des sourires, il devint poète et ami
Il inventa des tours de pitre, elle sourit
Mais les bourgeois et les duchesses, les relations
À leur façon chuchotèrent dans les salons
Elles avaient beau dire et médire, le gros Lulu, il savait bien
Que même en rêve il ne posa jamais la main
Jamais la main sur sa princesse qu’avait seize ans
Et ceux qui étaient un peu plus sages ou moins méchants
Se demandaient «Qu'est-ce qui brille chez le gros Lulu transformé
Et qu’est-ce qui lie donc cette biche à ce sanglier ?»
À seize ans, les désespoirs passent et simplement
Elle le quitta sans un mot de remerciement
Lui, il ne la crut pas ingrate, les mots ça sert peu, voyez-vous
Dans un sourire ils se quittèrent et voilà tout
Il y perdait comme sa vie, le gros Lulu
Mais c’est après son départ qu’il s’en aperçut
Elle, elle y gagna une chose comme un talisman et bien plus
Pouvoir penser, quand tout est moche, au gros Lulu
In Paris all blue, under the moon, one evening in June
She was sleepwalking, eyes far away
But neither blue Paris nor the moon existed for her that night
Heartache or scared to live?
She was sixteen
Him, he strolled alone, the fat Lulu
A little plump and 50s maybe older
He would have passed without saying anything but something stopped him
This drifting despair he approached
At her sad look, he spoke, kind words
She didn't even listen to him but followed him
She would have followed the devil, so why not this one
She thought he looked like a good devil, he brought her
Had him a rich house, fat Lulu
He brought that doe with lost eyes
She didn't tell her life story, he didn't ask her
But like a queen, he installed her
To heal her, he surrounded her with a thousand cares
He picked the most beautiful roses from his garden
To give her smiles, he became a poet and a friend
He invented clown tricks, she smiled
But the bourgeois and the duchesses, the relations
In their own way whispered in the salons
No matter how much they said and slandered, fat Lulu, he knew well
That even in dreams he never put his hand down
Never laying hands on his sixteen-year-old princess
And those who were a little wiser or less wicked
Were wondering "What's shining about fat Lulu transformed
And what binds this doe to this boar?"
At sixteen, the despair passes and just
She left him without a word of thanks
He didn't think she was ungrateful, words are of little use, you see
With a smile they parted and that was it
He was losing his life, big Lulu
But it was after his departure that he noticed it
She, she won such a thing as a talisman and more
To be able to think, when everything is ugly, of fat Lulu
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