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Uploaded by on Nov 7, 2010

La Grand-Combe est une ancienne ville minière des Cévennes.Très prospère au 19e et dans la 1ere moitié du 20e siècle, les grands industriels y imposaient des codes moraux et religieux stricts en contrepartie de conditions de vie considérées comme privilégiées (à l'échelle du prolétariat bien sur).
Cette chanson s'inscrit dans la lignée des chansons de mineurs américaines. Le thème m'en est venu un jour où dans les environs de la Grand-Combe, j'ai vu un batiment de mine désaffecté sur lequel des gens avaient écrit "parlez de nous" en grosses lettres de peinture blanche.
Il se dégageait de ce message une iompression de désespoir intense, et je m'étais promis un jour de faire une chanson pour exaucer cette demande.
La Grand-Combe is a former coal mining town of the region of Cévennes, south of France. It used to be quite prosperous in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century but was brought to misery by the decline of coal mining.
The bosses there had a sort of moral vision of their industry and imposed a very strict moral and religious way of life to the minors.
The idea of that song came to me one day I was travelling in this area, and I saw an abandoned mine buiding on which somebody had written "talk about us" in hudge white letters. That sight had such a helpless feeling about it, that I promised myself to write a song to fulfill that request.

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  • Hi there !

    No...that means " dirty hands but white bread "...It is the currency (slogan) of la Grand'Combe and miners...

    I lived in la Grand'Combe 10 years ago...great memories...

  • @MOTORFREAKER cool :)

  • "Mans negros pan blan"...

  • @MOTORFREAKER Thanks guy. I didn't get it clearly, but it must be cool ! :)

    What language is that ? Catalan ?

    Thanks for watching and commenting anyway

    RV

  • J'adore!!

    

  • @luludi024 Merci !

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  • You're welcome !...

    And don't forget: la Grand'Combe rules !... ;)

  • Salut leChat

    BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Cette main gauche est sur banjo-amphétamine!

    On t'adore jusqu'aux mines désaffectées du grand nord canadien.....

    Go Habs Go!

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