Michel Fugain — Les cerises de Monsieur Clément song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Les cerises de Monsieur Clément" by Michel Fugain.
Lyrics
Un certain Clment Jean Baptiste
Qui habitait rue Saint-Vincent
Voulant crire un compliment
Trempa sa plume dans le sang
Qu’elles taient rouges les cerises
Que nous chantait Monsieur Clment
C’tait plus beau qu’un Evangile
C’tait des mots de maintenant
Mais il faudrait que nos enfants
N’attendent pas comme on attend
Qu’elles mrissent les cerises
Que nous chantait Monsieur Clment
Bien sr c’est difficile
De mourir quand on a vingt ans
Mais pour quelques cerises
Que ne ferait-on au printemps
De Rpublique en Rpublique
Toujours cocu toujours content
On applaudit les bons truands
Au ventre rond au ventre blanc
Qui nous revendent les cerises
Qu’avait rv Monsieur Clment
Tous ces pontifes des Eglises
Tous ces suiveurs de rgiments
Voudront nous manger tout vivant
Mais ils se casseront les dents
Sur les noyaux de ces cerises
Du verger de Monsieur Clment
Bien sr c’est difficile
De mourir quand on a vingt ans
Mais pour quelques cerises
Que ne ferait-on au printemps
Lyrics translation
A certain Clment Jean Baptiste
Who lived rue Saint-Vincent
Wanting to shout a compliment
Dipped his feather in the blood
That they were red cherries
That Mr. Clment was singing to us
It was more beautiful than a gospel
It was words from now on
But our children should
Do not wait as expected
Let them smell the Cherries
That Mr. Clment was singing to us
Well sr it's hard
To die when you're twenty
But for a few cherries
What would we do in the spring
From Rpublic to Rpublic
Always cuckold always happy
We applaud the good thugs
Round belly with white belly
Who sell us the Cherries
What had rv Monsieur Clment
All these pontiffs of the churches
All these followers of rgiments
Will want to eat us all alive
But they will break their teeth
On the kernels of these cherries
From Monsieur Clment's Orchard
Well sr it's hard
To die when you're twenty
But for a few cherries
What would we do in the spring