Line Renaud — Mademoiselle From Armentières song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Mademoiselle From Armentières" by Line Renaud.
Lyrics
Un joli sourire de France
Des fossettes aux joues
Des cheveux tout fous
Des yeux bleus très doux
Sur son berceau dès sa naissance
Une bonne fée
D’un coup de baguette
Avait changé sa destinée
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Parlez-vous?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Parlez-vous?
Elle n’avait pas encore parlé
Qu’elle savait déjà chanter
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Puis vint l'âge d'être écolière
D’apprendre à compter
D’apprendre à parler
Ça ça l’ennuyait
Mais faire l'école buissonnière
Ça, ça l’amusait
Toujours gaie comme un pinson
Elle chantait sa chanson
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Parlez-vous?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Parlez-vous?
Mais un matin ce fut la guerre
Et tous les soldats
Qui passaient par-là
Se disaient tout bas
La voyant si belle et si fière
Ah ! Qu’on serait bien
Blottis dans ses bras
Douillettement jusqu’au matin
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Parlez-vous?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Parlez-vous?
Quand on raconte cette histoire
Dans tous les pays
On ajoute aussi
Qu’elle eut un mari
Les gens qui ont bonne mémoire
Vont vous raconter
Qu’elle accepta d'épouser
Un colonel anglais
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Voulez-vous?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Voulez-vous
Comme elle lui répondit: «oui»
Elle eut un très gentil mari
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Lyrics translation
A nice smile from France
Dimples on the cheeks
Crazy hair
Very soft blue eyes
On his cradle from birth
A good fairy
With a wand
Had changed his destiny
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Are you talking?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Are you talking?
She hadn't spoken yet.
That she already knew how to sing
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Then came the age of being a schoolgirl
Learning to count
Learning to speak
It bored him.
But doing Bush School
That was fun for him.
Always cheerful as a pinson
She sang her song
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Are you talking?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Are you talking?
But one morning it was war
And all the soldiers
Who were passing by
They were saying low
Seeing her so beautiful and so proud
Ah! That we would be nice
Snuggled in her arms
Comfort until morning
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Are you talking?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Are you talking?
When we tell this story
In all countries
We also add
That she had a husband
People who have good memory
Will tell you
That she agreed to marry
An English colonel
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Do you want to?
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Do you want
As she replied, " Yes»
She had a very nice husband
Mademoiselle from Armentières