Georges Moustaki — Le petit homme et le grand homme song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Le petit homme et le grand homme" by Georges Moustaki.
Lyrics
Le petit homme
Portait un uniforme
Et des souliers vernis.
Le grand homme allait les pieds nus.
Le petit homme
Serrait dans ses poings
La crosse d’un fusil.
Le grand homme avait les mains nues.
Le petit homme
Portait dans son sac
Les oiseaux qu’il avait tués.
Le grand homme ramassait des fruits.
Le petit homme
Marchait sur l’asphalte
Des routes bien tracées.
Le grand homme allait à travers champs.
Ils auraient pu ne jamais se rencontrer.
Pourtant, un jour les deux routes se croisèrent.
Le petit homme prit peur et recula.
Il arma son fusil.
Le grand homme en souriant tendit les mains vers lui…
Et le coup partit.
Lyrics translation
The little man
Wore a uniform
And varnished shoes.
The big man went barefoot.
The little man
Clenched in his fists
The butt of a rifle.
The big man had his hands bare.
The little man
Carried in his bag
The birds he killed.
The great man was gathering fruit.
The little man
Walked on asphalt
Well-laid roads.
The big man was going through fields.
They could never have met.
Yet one day the two roads crossed.
The little man got scared and backed away.
He wields his rifle.
The big man with a smile stretched out his hands to him…
And the blow went away.