Daniel Lanois - Pour ton Sourire

[valbonvent]

its says: To have your smile, I'll give you a pretty ring A pretty ring for having your smile To kiss you I'll give you a cup full of love A cup of love to kiss you For your eyes and for your lips For your smile For your smile I want to give you my nights, ma days and all my dreams for your eyes, for lips and for your smile

[nnncnoel]

First of all thanks for the translation, it really helps. I have been a big fan of Lanois in a while now, but I have never comed across this song before strange enough.

Well I can only say one thing about it and only way to clearly, Damm I love this

[copperpiper900]

Give me your heart

Give me your lips

Give me your eyes, give me your smile

For your smile, I will give you a ring, a pretty ring, a pretty ring for your smile.

For your embrace, I will give you a cup of love, a cup of love for your embrace.

For your eyes and for your lips, for your smile.

For your smile, I will give you all of my nights, my days, and all of my dreams.

For your eyes and your lips, for your smile.

[MrDavidthib]

Look for the original version by JORANE. She wrote the song and sing it with Lanois on her album. Nice clip there. She's a canadian artist from the province of Quebec (Quebec city) and she is well known internationally. The language is plain French, just like we speak in the province of Quebec.

and the words you are looking for are: I'D give you A NICE RING...une belle bague.

[FRANCIFORNIA]

Yep and here he sings in French, cool for me and all the people who's mother tongue is that ;-)

[cinderellalifestyle]

the ultimate soul man................

[keimzeit88]

bezaubernd ...

[poptophop]

Thank for posting this. Amazing combination of lyrics, voice, and guitar. Can you post more of that "In Session" show? Especially where he wails on the guitar.

[ChrysalisBound]

~*~*~très jolie~*~*~

[keimzeit88]

auf jeden Fall ist es einzigartig ...

ich liebe es

[classof80extant]

OK. Is this Acadian French or Quebequois?

Not really Parisian, and I don't think it's Metis.

Please let me know.

[Acoisapublica]

this is acadian..due to its very complicated history..and the fact that the acadians are sprend in a wide territory...you should know that there's a lot of acadian accents...i know this, cauz i'm acadian :)

[classof80extant]

Acoisapublica, I am delighted to 'meet' an Acadian and thank you very much for your reply. The song is so gorgeous and so heartrending. Mr. Lanois is intriguing.

My daughter was born in Toronto, and even though we're stateside (alas!), she's in French immersion, and her (Parisienne) accent is already perfect.

Do you know of any Acadian books (or web sites)? I know it is primarily a spoken language, but you oughta know!

[yunkah95]

Acadian comes from the Normand patois (Cotentin) and Québécois comes from the Perche dialect.

[newbliss3]

give me your heart

give me your lips

give me your eyes, your smile

for your smile I want to give you

A beautiful ring.

etc. for your smile, I want to give you all my nights , days and dreams

etc.

(sorry)

[sjkalsc]

Thanks for posting.

[AnnaZSCN]

Is there anyone can tell me what is he singing, please?

[abcforall]

The lyrics are in French, you can read them on the upper right, in the description.

[AnnaZSCN]

i cannot find the lyrics...

no description found on the upper right position...

[roddlyyours]

Here are the lyrics, minus one word which I couldn't make out:

So give me your eyes, your smile

for your smile, I want to give you a beautiful ... (kiss??)

for your embrace, I want to give a cup of love

for your eyes, for your smile, etc.

[abcforall]

You got it, it's a KISS

[roddlyyours]

actually, une belle bague would be a ring, I just couldn't make out the word, so the incomplete line is 'for your smile, I want to give you a beautiful ring'.

R.

[ailexq]

my god, he's so damn soulful. thank you once again for sharing these great treasures, man.

[dubbedcrazy]

canmada thje?