Les Stentors — Le mot France song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Le mot France" by Les Stentors.
Lyrics
France,
Je suis né plus loin, beaucoup plus loin qu'on pense.
C'est à Saïgon que j'ai eu mon enfance
Et ma mère, là-bas, le disait doucement,
Le mot France,
Le mot France.
France,
Le temps s'est enfui mais je le sais depuis :
Il suffit d'être loin ou seulement d'être seul
Pour avoir le cœur serré quand on entend
Le mot France,
Le mot France.
France,
Elle était institutrice, et, au lycée,
On a rencontré ces mots dans nos dictées.
Ecrivez maison, justice et liberté,
Espérance,
Le mot France.
Il y avait
Il y avait aussi, plus tard, je l'ai appris,
Et révolutions et passions et violences
Et misères et flammes et guerres et drames
Mais France,
C'était les rivières et mes montagnes bleues.
C'était les clairières et les enfants heureux,
Des châteaux, des blés, des champs, des roses,
Tant de choses, en France.
France,
Le temps s'est enfui mais je le sais depuis :
Il suffit d'être loin ou seulement d'être seul
Pour avoir le cœur serré quand on entend
Le mot France,
Le mot France,
France.
Lyrics translation
France, I was born further, much further than we think.
It was in Saigon that I had my childhood and my mother, there, said it softly, the word France, the word France.
France, time has run away but I have known it since : it is enough to be far away or only to be alone to have a tight heart when you hear the word France, the word France.
France, she was a teacher, and, in high school, we met these words in our dictations.
Write House, justice and freedom, hope, the word France.
There was there was also, later I learned, and revolutions and passions and violence and miseries and flames and wars and dramas but France, it was the rivers and my Blue Mountains.
It was glades and happy children, castles, wheat, fields, roses, so many things, in France.
France, time has run away but I have known it since : it is enough to be far away or only to be alone to have a tight heart when you hear the word France, the word France, France.