Clémentine et Léon - Yves Duteil

Clmentine et Lon Barentin, qui vendaient des pendules Pantin

Se sont connus un jour en prenant leur journal

ct du caf du Canal

Et le jour de la St-Valentin, ils se sont maris sans parents ni parrains

La fanfare avait jou des musiques de Chopin

Clmentine et Lon taient bien.

Pendant qu’elle attendait les clients, Clmentine astiquait les cadrans

Et Lon tout au fond dans son beau tablier

Rparait les horloges du quartier

ct du cahier, des tampons

Il y avait sur la caisse une corbeille de bonbons

Les coucous qui sonnaient du matin jusqu’au soir

Donnaient l’heure, la demie et le quart.

Clmentine eut deux fils de Lon, il fallut agrandir la maison

On reprit pour pas cher sa boutique au voisin

Jusque-l les affaires marchaient bien

Mais la guerre est venue tout dfaire

Clmentine a pleur pour ses fils et leur pre

Les pendules ont cess d’gayer la maison

Quand Lon s’en alla pour le front.

Clmentine a vendu ses bijoux, accroch son alliance son cou

Les enfants qui donnaient du travail foison

Lui faisait oublier les saisons

Les horloges arrtes sur une heure

Attendaient le retour du soldat de son cњur

Quand Lon apparut dans la porte un beau soir

Elle a d se pincer pour y croire.

Clmentine et Lon Barentin, pour le jour de la St-Valentin

Ont rouvert la boutique et l’ont rebaptise

On entendit les bruits des baisers

Il avait fabriqu de ses mains un carillon qui jouait sur un air de Chopin

Ils avaient invit pour l’inauguration les amis, les voisins

Les enfants, les cousins, la fanfare, et mme tout l’orphon

Clmentine et Lon.

Clémentine and Lon Barentin, who sold Pantin clocks

Met one day by picking up their diary

next to Café du Canal

And on Valentine's Day they got married without parents or godfathers

The brass band played music by Chopin

Clementine and Lon were fine.

While she waited for customers, Clmentine was polishing the dials

And Lon way back in his beautiful apron

Repaired neighborhood clocks

next to notebook, stamps

There was a basket of sweets on the crate

The cuckoo clocks that sounded from morning until evening

Gave the hour, the half and the quarter.

Clementine had two sons by Lon, the house had to be enlarged

We took over his shop next door for cheap

So far business has been good.

But the war came to undo everything

Clementine cried for her sons and their father

The clocks stopped cheering the house

When Lon went to the front.

Clementine sold her jewelry, hung her wedding ring around her neck

Children who gave plenty of work

Made him forget the seasons

The clocks stopped at one hour

Waited for the return of the soldier of her heart

When Lon appeared in the doorway one fine evening

She had to pinch herself to believe it.

Clémentine and Lon Barentin, for Valentine's Day

Reopened the store and renamed it

We heard the sounds of kisses

He had made a carillon with his own hands that played to a tune by Chopin

They had invited for the inauguration the friends, the neighbors

The children, the cousins, the marching band, and even the whole orphon

Clementine and Lon.