Jean Ferrat — Le Polonais song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Le Polonais" by Jean Ferrat.

Lyrics

Le polonais traînait encore son vieux chagrin
Il est venu s’asseoir, a demandé du vin
Et les deux mains posées sur la table de bois
Il a servi deux verres, et puis il a dit: «Bois»
Il a parlé longtemps à son chagrin têtu
En lui disant: «Va-t-en, tu vois, je n’en peux plus»
«Cette fois, c’est fini, je veux vivre sans toi»
«Vieux chagrin, je t’enterre pour la dernière fois»
C'étaient deux compagnons qui venaient de très loin
L’un dans l’autre habitant, se partageant le pain
Comme ces vieux chevaux qu’on attelle aux labours
Ils s'étaient rencontrés à la fin d’un amour
Dans le petit bistro, tout le monde attendait
Pour savoir celui qui, le premier, partirait
Mais quand l’homme est sorti, derrière lui, pas à pas
Son chagrin l’a suivi, comme les autres fois
Alors le polonais a sorti son couteau
Et à son vieux chagrin, il lui a fait la peau
Et puis il s’est couché, sans bien savoir pourquoi
Dans le lit sans mémoire d’une fille à soldats
Quand ont sonné midi à l’horloge d’en bas
Il est redescendu, sa veste sur le bras
Il a tourné au coin de la rue du Maroc
Et puis il a pleuré, tout seul, le long des docks

Lyrics translation

The pole was still dragging his old grief
He came to sit down, asked for wine
And both hands laid on the wooden table
He served two glasses, and then he said, " Drink»
He spoke for a long time to his stubborn grief
By saying, " go away, you see, I can't take it anymore»
"This time it's over, I want to live without you»
"Old grief, I bury you for the last time»
They were two companions who came from far away
One in the other inhabitant, sharing bread
Like those old horses that we splint in the plow
They had met at the end of a love
In the small bistro, everyone was waiting
To know who, the first, would leave
But when the man came out, behind him, step by step
His grief followed him, like the other times
So the Pole pulled out his knife
And to his old grief, he made his skin
And then he went to bed, not knowing why
In the bed without memory of a girl to soldiers
When did noon ring at the clock from below
He came down, his jacket on his arm
He shot around the corner from Morocco
And then he cried, all alone, along the docks