Mathusalem - Serge Reggiani

Lorsque Mathusalem

Alla dire «je t’aime»

A la jeune fille

Il… apporta des jonquilles

Elle aimait les jonquilles

Il avait huit cents ans

Elle avait seulement

Six cent trente-quatre ans

Et… ses parents ne furent pas

D’accord surtout Papa…

Il attendit un siècle

Et enfin le vieux type

Un soir cassa sa pipe

Mathusalem aussi sec

Retourna voir sa belle

Avec des asphodèles

Il avait neuf cents ans

Elle maintenant

Sept cent trente-quatre ans

Mais… paraissait sept cent… trente

Et elle avait des… rentes

Elle fit sa timide

Soixante ans encore

Elle était candide

Lui… était fou de son… corps

Il attendit encore

Elle finit vieille fille

Lui toujours joyeux drille

Apportait des jonquilles

A neuf cent soixante-neuf billes

Mathusalem enfin

Approcha de sa fin…

Parce qu’après tant de jours

Il mourut d’amour

Alors toi tu penses

Que moi j’aurai sa pa… tience

Moi j’aurai sa patience

Moi j’aurai sa patience

Moi j’aurai sa patience…

When Methuselah

Go say "I love you"

To the girl

He…brought daffodils

She loved daffodils

He was eight hundred years old

She only had

Six hundred thirty-four years

And... his parents were not

Agreed especially Dad…

He waited a century

And finally the old guy

One evening broke his pipe

Methuselah as dry

Returned to his beauty

With asphodels

He was nine hundred years old

She now

Seven hundred and thirty-four years

But… looked like seven hundred… thirty

And she had… annuities

She acted shy

Sixty more years

She was candid

He…was crazy about his…body

He waited again

She ends up a spinster

He's always happy

Brought daffodils

At nine hundred and sixty-nine marbles

Methuselah finally

Approaching its end...

Because after so many days

He died of love

So you think

That I will have his... patience

I will have his patience

I will have his patience

I will have his patience...