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Jacques Brel Le Moribond Live English Subtitles

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Uploaded by on Feb 1, 2011

Humorous 1961 song about a dying man's farewell to his friend, his priest, his unfaithful wife and her lover. Mawkishly adapted by Terry Jacks in English as "Seasons in the Sun," widely covered by indies and punk bands in America and the UK, notably Kurt Cobain's Nirvana, Pearls before Swine, Blink 182. This is a 1964 performance from the Netherlands originally subtitled in Dutch. Thanks again to philipchek of Paris and Youtube for revisions of this translation.
Le Moribond

Adieu l'Émile je t'aimais bien
Adieu l'Émile je t'aimais bien tu sais
On a chanté les mêmes vins
On a chanté les mêmes filles
On a chanté les mêmes chagrins
Adieu l'Émile je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais
Mais je pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'ame
Car vu que tu es bon comme du pain blanc
Je sais que tu prendras soin de ma femme

(Chorus)
Je veux qu'on rie
Je veux qu'on danse
Je veux qu'on s'amuse comme des fous
Je veux qu'on rie
Je veux qu'on danse
Quand c'est qu'on me mettra dans le trou

Adieu Curé je t'aimais bien
Adieu Curé je t'aimais bien tu sais
On n'était pas du même bord
On n'était pas du même chemin
Mais on cherchait le même port
Adieu Curé je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais
Mais je pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'ame
Car vu que tu étais son confident
Je sais que tu prendras soin de ma femme
(Chorus)

Adieu l'Antoine je t'aimais pas bien
Adieu l'Antoine je t'aimais pas bien tu sais
J'en crève de crever aujourd'hui
Alors que toi tu es bien vivant
Et même plus solide que l'ennui
Adieu l'Antoine je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais
Mais je pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'ame
Car vu que tu étais son amant
Je sais que tu prendras soin de ma femme
(Chorus)

Adieu ma femme je t'aimais bien
Adieu ma femme je t'aimais bien tu sais
Mais je prends le train pour le Bon Dieu
Je prends le train qui est avant le tien
Mais on prend tous le train qu'on peut
Adieu ma femme je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais
Mais je pars aux fleurs les yeux fermés ma femme
Car vu que je les ai fermés souvent
Je sais que tu prendras soin de mon ame
(Chorus)

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  • Really supreme text and story compared to the Seasons in the sun!

  • I had no idea this was originally by Jacques Brel. My Lord how they butchered this song.

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  • @KTo288 True!

  • @loverainthunder I think you're 100 per cent right!

  • @mazikaze Anglophones are wont to sneer at French popular music. I wonder what Francophones think of US in the light of atrocities such as those perpetrated by Terry Jacks and his epigones?

  • @kavorka75 I couldn't agree more. Terry Jacks's version was pure kitsch (even if it was slickly produced and had a better string arrangement than it deserved). As for Nirvana's version - I know they did it off-the-cuff, swapping instruments, but, even conceding that, it's still dreadful. (I expect the mass execration of Kurt Cobain obsessives now. Forgive me if I can't see anything in your hero (beyond tremendous drive and ambition, and some kind of charisma unrelated to actual talent).)

  • FANTASTIQUE! Mister BREL! (leave in peace)

    Fab.

  • What a God!

  • this is soo funny, even the music :)

  • Brel liked to sing this kind of sarcastic texts :)

  • Great song from Brel thx...! ;)

  • @mujerado Except that Jacks couldn't remember all of McKuen's lyrics, so he made some up himself to fill in. McKuen's version (also recorded by the Kingston Trio) was much closer to the original than Jacks's was.

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