Charles Aznavour
La route lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1966
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 2:55
Quand les tambours, ont cessé de rouler
When the drums have ceased to roll
Les clairons de sonner
The bugles start to sound
L'adjudant de gueuler
The sergeant starts to shout
Moi, j'ai repris la route
I, I took to the road again
Moi, j'ai repris la blanche et belle grande route
I, I took the broad and beautiful road
Quand le soleil dans le ciel s'est pointé
When the sun broke through the sky
Ivre de liberté
Drunk on freedom
Sans savoir où aller
Without knowing where to go
Moi, j'ai repris la route
I, I took to the road again
D'un petit pas léger
With a light little step
Il y avait une gosse
There was a girl
Qui gardait ses moutons
Who tended her sheep
Laridondon
Pas fûtée mais précoce
Not very bright but precocious
Un bien joli tendron
A lovely young thing
L'air tendre et l'herbe verte
With a tender air and green grass
Quelques banalités
A few trivialities
Laridondé
La fille s'est offerte
The girl offered herself
On s'est laissé glisser
We let ourselves slide
Quand ses parents ont crié au voleur
When her parents shouted 'thief'
Car j'avais pris le coeur
Because I had taken the heart
De la fillette en pleur
Of the girl in tears
Moi, j'ai repris la route
I took to the road again
Moi, j'ai repris la blanche et belle grande route
I took back the wide and beautiful road
Quand les gendarmes ont cessé de chercher
When the police stopped searching
Et moi de me cacher
And I stopped hiding
Lorsque tout fut calmé
When everything was calm
Moi, j'ai repris la route
I took to the road again
Mais je l'ai enlevée
But I took her away
À Paris sur la Butte
In Paris on the hill
Où l'on s'est installés
Where we settled down
Laridondé
Elle a fait la culbute
She did a somersault
Avec tout le quartier
With the whole neighborhood
Quand j'étais en colère
When I was angry
Elle m'ouvrait les bras
She opened her arms to me
Laridonda
Y avait rien à faire
There was nothing to be done
Elle ne compreniat pas
She didn't understand
Quand dans mes yeux les larmes ont perlé
When tears have welled up in my eyes
Quand ma vie fut brisée
When my life was shattered
Et mon coeur dévasté
And my heart laid waste
Moi, j'ai repris la route
I, I took to the road again
Moi, j'ai repris la blanche et belle grande route
I, I took the white and beautiful wide road
Quand la caserne a ouvert ses battants
When the barracks swung open its doors
Que j'ai vu grimaçant
That I saw grimacing
Mon amour d'adjudant
My love, the sergeant major
Ça ne fait aucun doute
There’s no doubt about it
Je me suis engagé
I signed up
Et j'ai repris la route
And I've hit the road again
Dans les rangs de l'armée
In the ranks of the army
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Key vocabulary
- butte
- moundB2
- gosse
- kidB2
- ivre
- drunkB2
- pointé
- pointedB2
- précoce
- earlyB2
- banalités
- platitudesC2
- belle
- beautifulC2
- blanche
- whiteC2
- aller
- goA1
- bras
- armA1
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About this song
Charles Aznavour was a French-Armenian singer and actor whose music blended French chanson with Eastern European folk, American jazz, tango, and Middle Eastern influences. He was known for a long-running career marked by thousands of recordings and his songwriting, composing or co-composing over a thousand songs for himself and other artists.