Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times (lyrics)

[GuitarApprentice360]

what does the lyric mean?

[roxydog2004]

And was that M J inspiration for the moon walk at 1:40

[tallperson605]

Chaplin was and is the most badass person to have ever lived in the film industry.

[AKCDawn]

Watched this in U.S. History today. Love Charlie's movies!

[rockinrolla125]

Charlie Chaplin the best at what he did

[brawl2063]

Charlie Chaplin now there's a man who knows how to make perfect gibberish.

[wheatbull]

Chaplin was a Genius !

[SupaYahya]

@wheatbull Ek wil hê jy moet my meisie baba XOXOXO

[BloodyBloodPeker]

at 2:01 --> The lyrics should be "tule, tule, tule vaan" he speaks some finnish there, it means "just come" (come is said 3 times there:P)

[studioalektik]

What a genius:)))))



[SimonaPiano]

If this is a silent film...and Charlie is singing? Who is really singing here???

I can't believe it's Charlie Chaplin singing!

[Saby727]

@SimonaPiano Yes, he is singing. The film was made after the sound had appeared in films, but Charlie wanted to show we don't need it. Therefore it's a silent film with the exception of this scene.

[murilopolla]

I'm looking for the chords to this song, would any one be so kind as to tell me what the notes are?

[tvwatcher1220]

Is this his actual voice, or is he lip synching?

[madiakawaffles]

what language is he speaking? 

[kalejdoskop88]

@madiakawaffles I think that he's singing in french and italian, but the lyrics means nothing at all

[Saby727]

@madiakawaffles the language in which he sings doesn't exist. His aim was to show that the sound is not needed in the film and we could understand everything without it.

[roxydog2004]

@Saby727 So what was the purpose for the sub titles, and the laughter about

[Scalisi89]

PURE GENIUS! 

[Dockelektro]

I love a good Sinora Pilasina in the morning.

[fayenesse]

its fantastic I laugh ever single time!

[fayenesse]

haha one person posted on some help forum thingy what he's really saying and, the first verse for example, its like: beautiful down satore / I our so cafore / If I our covort / I you, you the two

hahaha complete nonsense! haha love this song and i love saying "Je la tu la ti la twaaah"

[titad992]

We won't be able to have a great genius like him. He's just so fantastic !

[KeepRockin55]

He is speaking jibberish. He did this so not to run the experience for people viewing it it in other countries.

[DrDarshan1983]

a great genius.... this was the first movie through which the audience actually heard Charlie Chaplin's voice for the very first time.... a very fine song coposed by the man himself.... the lyrics though do not mean anything coz its a sequence where Charlie cannot remember the words of the actual song and he has to make up the words at the very moment....

[MadJadiel]

Solangeag1 made i just translated This "letter" letter is not really just a bunch of incoherent syllables (words that sound like french italian - it tells the whole story only with gestures (a young and beautiful - see the gesture of face, buttocks and breasts), and a fat man, older and richer (gestures with respect to the belly, mustache, a cane) that either hooked up with her. They get into a car and he tries to move into her, she gets angry (on hand slap * lol * silly) and he gives you a ring

[fayenesse]

@MadJadiel i think she asks for the ring and when he gives it to her she leaves :P

[requiemmariano]

GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!

[Uri1fire]

Meu,aqui no Recife colocaram uma placa dizendo que esse cara era Ateu,é verdade?



[bsv2471]

Великий Классик!!!!!

[mjtba12]

rest in peace great man

[6113161131]

could someone translate it into english?

[MrRandomnesss]

@6113161131 Can't translate gibberish.

[laurikim]

Si la tu, la ti, la tua!

[R17101]

Man, when he throws up the papers and start looking around where are them JUST MADE ME LAUGH A LOT

[teotibi]

Meraviglioso.

[Emy0426]

Wow, the meaning of this song is spectacular,

Chaplin only wanted to show that speaking is not necessary to understand a movie,

all this because he was about to loose is job when sound was introduced in filming.

[BOdelaRUT]

@Emy0426

Chaplin was a man who didn't care much for modernization and felt the message was more importaint than the effects (sound was considered an effect back then). Yet he masterd this new media perfectly (as can be seen in the final speech of The Great Dictator - that's a timeless speach people should listen to over and over again).

[akuma123321]

can someone translate to English please. Love this scene would love to know what he's saying.

[hoikthus]

@akuma123321 they don't mean anything! He's singing nonsense because he can't remember the words to the song. The inflection of his language and his facial expressions are what tell the story. Genius

[Fanoulita]

How I love Charlie Chaplin and THIS MUSIC!!!!

[Princeofhangu]

what language does he sing in

[yomismamentemi]

michael jackson le copio el paso...jejeje

[theaterstar89]

modern times and city lights are my favorite from him. for people who do not like silent films. just watch them and really get to know the art and history of the films actors & everything, you'll end up liking and appreciating them:-)

[unknownx181]

can someone translate it to english ?? i love this part

[Kataklism4]

@unknownx181

impossible! the lyrics does not make sense! all the words have no sense!

[unknownx181]

what does he say??

[HyDrEYuRei]

I do'nt get how is it possible to dislike on this. It's one of those masterpieces that will last forever...

[KatyLuchers]

Plus actually speaking by a metaphor id speak dat his nonsence is vey meaningful... not by what exactly the words are by all is going on and what is being lived through mhh tho in fact in his words was something meaningful describing girl who his character here loved :)

[KatyLuchers]

I am actually from RUssia but spealing well ENglish I dont know French at all & I actually think im even sure that Ive understood everything at what the nonsence he sang and whats going on...Chaplin is a King of COmedy especially inXX century and actually hes such a good technically dancer that I think Im even sure that if he only tried once he could dance hip hop perfecty he just didnt kno'about such a dance and music style yet...he jest peobably needed to try... try anything and that's a magic

[osindi]

So Deep!

[sukabutu]

Se bella piu satore, je notre so catore,

Je notre qui cavore, je la qu’, la qui, la quai!

Le spinash or le busho, cigaretto toto bello,

Ce rakish spagoletto, si la tu, la tu, la tua!

Senora pelefima, voulez-vous le taximeter,

La zionta sur le tita, tu le tu le tu le wa!

[urloldude]

I cant believe one of the best scenes in classic cinema was spoke in gibberish. Bravo

[melofaiilpiacere]

CHARLIE CHAPLIN THE BEST

[anonymous24681]

Paulette Goddard is really beautiful.

[blacherfy]

Best, meaningful lyrics ever!...

[unorthodoxJ]

ha wait is this not in another language? is it really just nonsense?

I was hoping for a translation

[Treemeadow]

@unorthodoxJ

Its a mix of italian words and english words in non-coherent sentences. Just a bunch of nonsense sentences. Kind of like me saying

"A taxi with a pickle, I'm climbing up a moustache. I eat a big pinata, la tua tua tua" etc (not that those were his words- just an example of what he was doing)

[MathieuValbuena]

@Treemeadow They're also many french words. 

[Treemeadow]

@MathieuValbuena

OOPS, thats what I meant XD

[Grabadia]

POLSKA!!!

[pohuiMoroz]

Charlie Chaplin Legend of humor

[exeisxaraktira]

Chuck Noris' s grandpa.

[TheGainsbourg]

on dirait quelqu'un qui essaye de faire du Français ... :)

[sletter56]

@TheGainsbourg C'est un mélange de français, italien et je pense même de l' éspagnol.

[itsalargebowlofpizza]

only Chaplin could make up words & make it sound hilarious!

[TheMulapa]

Charlie Chaplin: un humano extraordinario en todo el sentido de la palabra, magnífico, mi esposo y yo lloramos de la risa con esta escena... jajajajajaja... desde que la vi no puedo quitarme esa tonadita de la mente y la tarareo todo el tiempo... lo amo.

[lou85190]

He's so small!

[ITCJon]

AKA "My Name is Not Merv Griffin" (as heard on the Dr. Demento show)

[beliala666]

je crois que ce langage il y a que lui qui peut le faire !

[TheTonymonk]

True masterpiece!

[zeroleminski]

je la posa ti la tuaaaa!!!

[Jimmycrow1980]

The best there ever was

[scannakiappolo]

This is a song in grammelot language. I think that some words of lyrics are wrong. He says: "ça mucha(cha) si innamora" (that we may translate: this girl falls in love). Not: "Se muntya si la moora". Obviously that's only an opinion.

[erolorhun]

They don`t make them like they used to

[ButtonWhite]

è un genio, mitico Charlie

[darondevil]

yo thanks for the lyrics mate been looking for it for ages almost a decade

[GreaserCoolRider]

The Comedic Genius himself

[paranorml]

NEW SONG ON MY YOUTUBE FEATURING J-FIVE

[Memale2009]

Voilà l'art de l'improvisation et de la pantomime. Ceux-ci savent exprimer ce que les paroles ne peuvent pas.

[BTDub76]

Check out the remix of this Chaplin clasdic by: Swing Kids - Nonsense

[KarthRevived]

some of the most hilarious dance moves ever spawned. thank you, Charlie. :)

[Orazio190788]

Spettacolare !!

[TlustleZadki]

szkoda , że jebiesz ...

[Bizzy0288]

genial!

[V4L3RYXD]

charlie chaplin un mito del cinema...

[MsMustardgirl]

LOVE THIS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kleoby]

se bella ciu satore

je notre so cafore

je notre si cavore

je la tu, la ti, la tua

la spinash o la busho

cigaretto porta bello

ce rakisk spagaletto

si la tu, la ti, la tua

[MAMICCHA]

@kleoby  Si la tu la ti la tuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! :)

[amaurius1er]

So funny I love Charli Chaplin and his music !!!

[Rumozamonien]

I really love how you made his nonsense into words. Kudos for that - it made my day.

[manoz88]

stupendo!! bel video

[Gorka160]

Un genio chaplin.

[TheChileno1980]

Genial: italiano-francés-inglés, jajjaj

[antiotio]

C'est du français de l'italien et ben du fun quoi !!! Super Charlie ! A mix of french and italian and slang fun !

[antiotio]

C'est du français de l'italien et ben du fun quoi !!! Super Charlie !

[ardid84]

GRAMLO puro!

Un genio como nunca hubo otro!!

[hoochandgooch]

he does not speak at all as the tramp it was the recording in the theatres

[marianneyaya]

It's a french song: "je cherche après titine"...

Chaplin says some words in french like "voulez-vous", but, as french, i may say it sounds italian...

Whatever, it's awesome! RIP Charlie!

[xOralyzer]

Trop marrant lui, c'est grâce au cours de Français que j'ai connu cette chanson :) Mort de rire :D

[brikkostello]

fantastic..thanks judie:)many thanks too ojaje.....*****

[gfks11]

@brikkostello

Sono lieto che Francesco ti è piaciuto, ma che è così impressionante e commovente!

Una serena serata, Judie:)

[Elya355]

Une scène et un acteur intergenerationnelles!!!

[Konradek1990]

Great song, great performance:)

[ileanaverde]

This genius was unbelievable!

[itsaguinness]

read the words when you watch again she writes for charlie on his cuff. He bases his story on that. A fat man loves a cute little woman.

0:56 A young woman

1:10 A fat man

1:33 He has a diamond ring to get her attention

1:43 fat man tries to get fresh after offering a taxi

[FirenzeSinatra]

Je me suis trompé, je voulais mettre 5 étoiles, merde...

Un classique dont on ne se lasse jamais <3

[P0MMET0XIC]

jKEAF

[ronfb1946]

was he already doing the moonwalk?

[ThieuFrance]

@ronfb1946 man i just saw your commentary, however that's the first thing i thought when i first wetched this movie. Merci M. Chaplin

[ronfb1946]

@ThieuFrance , well thank you.

You probably know that the song "Smile" was also made by Chaplin.

Mr. Chaplin was a real genius.

[TheBulldogs360]

@ronfb1946 oh yeah

[TheBulldogs360]

@ronfb1946 YEP

[Chimbo65]

@ronfb1946

Oh yes,and Charlie Chaplin was not made of plastic either.

All the best Chimbo

Chimbo`s Revival

[ronfb1946]

@Chimbo65 ; you have got to see Richard Attenbourgh's movie picture "Chaplin"

starring Robert Downey Jr.

It's based on "My Autobiography' by Chaplin himself.

Greeting's Ron.

[Chimbo65]

@ronfb1946

Thank you.

I will.

All the best

Chimbo

[XxSBProductionxX]

@ronfb1946 Charlie Chaplin has make the Moonwalk :) not michael jackson

[placeduluxe]

@XxSBProductionxX this is le mime Marceau who teached it to Mickael Jackson

[madelounette]

@XxSBProductionxX Is not Charlie Chaplin who has make the Moonwalk. It was a mime named Marceau.

[MrRandomnesss]

@madelounette Charlie Chaplin predates Marcel Marceau.

[vixenwm]

@ronfb1946 A quarter of a moonwalk.

[ronfb1946]

@vixenwm Meaning???

[dancebellaa]

@ronfb1946 yeah & the cool thing is he is doing it in front instead of doing it backwards (;

[Azhan60]

@ronfb1946 the anceint moonwalk

[rockergiirl11]

Hey thanx for posting!

[TheBuffy1193]

ché pas si vous etes au courant arte passe bcp du chaplin en smomen!!! g 16 et jsui fan de sa y la marké toute les generation!!

[SoldierSid3]

Sensationnel ! :D J'reste sur le ... sensationnel ! :)

[TheBuffy1193]

sublime inimitable!!!!!magnifique

[daloveromania]

he was the only englishman that could speak other language than english. :)))

was and will be the only one.

that's why he became famous!

[rockandrollpeacerose]

"Nonesense lyrics by Charlie Chaplin" ahahahaha!

[pedropaulopepa]

alguem sabe onde existe essas leendas em portugues????

[JimFromHell35]

Actually these lyrics don't mean anything in any language. That's why it's called "nonsense". Charlie Chaplin imitated French, Italian and German but didn't speake or understand these languages.

Once upon he was on the dancefloor, he didn't know what to do, so the Lady told him: "sing, nevermind the words" so he sang nonsense words. But we can guess it's a love song anyway, that's the magic of Charlie Chaplin.

[Solangeag1]

@pedropaulopepa Perante o anel (obviamente símbolo do casamento - aqui tem uma crítica ao sexo como moeda de troca) o olho da moça "cresce", e ela cede aos avanços ;) Ou seja, a tal moça, aparentemente recatada e moralmente correta, é hipócrita e interesseira, e no final das contas é tão "recatada" quanto uma prostituta, que se dá mediante pagamento *rs* Crítica muito bem-humorada aos velhos tarados e às mocinhas materialistas :P

[Solangeag1]

@pedropaulopepa Essa "letra" não é letra de verdade, é apenas um bando de sílabas incoerentes (que soam parecidas com palavras em francês, italiano..) - ele conta a história toda apenas com gestos (uma moça jovem e bonita - veja o gesto do rosto, bumbum e seios), e um homem gordo, mais velho e rico (gestos com relação à barriga, bigodão, bengala) que quer se engraçar com ela. Eles entram num carro e ele tenta avançar para cima dela, ela se zanga (tapa na mão boba *rs*) e ele lhe oferece um anel

[dk1beijo]

Um gênio. Nasci em 1983 e mesmo não sendo da minha época, aprendi a apreciálo. Uma alma de luz q passou na terra

[ReyemNeirda]

Tellement culte, un pur plaisir !

[lotten16]

he looks so sweet

R.I.P Charlie Chaplin

you will be loved

[Chutkiiiii]

wow ! you put the lyrics below! finally i ll be able to sing along! :D

chaplin is a genius!

[shoppymr]

EPIC!!...Chaplin, a marvelous example to see that old school and classics are amazingly good!

[JoaquimRaminhos]

Only chaplin could sing or say nonsense words and make it sound and look meaningful. He was great!

[prcornbread214]

@JoaquimRaminhos i agree i saw the great dictator and honestly cracked the hell up when he was playing the dictator...hes say sourkraut or shnitlze all of it was nonesense lmao i dont think there are many actors who have his ability to hypnotize the audience

[versusvideo]

@JoaquimRaminhos He was great? He IS great!

[versusvideo]

@JoaquimRaminhos He was great? He IS great!... Nevermind his death, wich is only a small bump on the history of his carrer

[JoaquimRaminhos]

@versusvideo Correction accepted and agreed. Chaplin is and always will be a great artist and man. Best regards.

[Gamtal]

@JoaquimRaminhos Armstrong can too... But Chaplin's the MASTER !

[TheChileno1980]

What a great song and performancee!!!!

Total Genius!!!!

[LiteWaiter]

Just wonderfull, in any way.

[MrIIIBRAHIM]

Muhteşem yaa... Büyük sanatçıı :))

[ARYOPONESS]

las letras salen tarde

[kingvyse]

OH YEAH!!!

[Alireza3131]

He was such a great man.

[PeperinaTube]

Maravilloso

[some34trat]

0:30 MOONWALK

[attilahypnotist]

he was the greatest ever,

[SammyAnsel]

can someone please explain that scene ... And what that means? No matter the letter

[Mosnina]

I've been told that in this film charles chaplin tried to expose why sound wasn't needed in films cause he was against it. That's why everyone in that scene laughs eventhough the lyrics are unsense.

[Holnorg]

Fantastic that you put those lyrics under!

Noncense and yet so understandable

[burtv1610]

if in good "satore" i are i know "cafore" i are if "cavore" i the you the "ti" the you the spinach or the cap cigarette brings beautiful this rakish "spaghaletto" if the you the "ti" the you ma "pilasina" you want the taximeter? the "zionta" his seat you the you the you the wa

[tilun02]

but I don't know what does it mean , what's the lyrics by english ?

[drakcloud85]

It doesn't mean anything. It's just nonsense lyrics.

[blueguitar72]

Pure genius! Incredible!!

[pepemandioca]

since chaplin wanted to give his character "the tramp" a universal identity, he doesn't speak a specific language, just like grantscharoff said, it's just gibberish. And he's freakin' awesome!

Unbelievable how after so many years he can still make you laugh. A real genius!

[icyrazor]

He does speak english, hint silent films.

[pepemandioca]

you can tell by the lip movement of course but when he spoke for the first time in his films he didn't want to do it in English.

[SparkyFore]

lol notice one of his "french" words is actually taxi-meter

[saberkan20022002]

really l like this song!!

[grantscharoff]

He is saying nothing :) A few words only here and there.

The rest is just gibberish :)

This song is actually the first time Chaplin ever spoke with his voice in the movies.

[hanniballecter62]

the very best chaplin thank for video