Charles Aznavour
Les Vertes Années lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1967
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 2:20
Nous étions tous les deux
We were both
Étendus sur la lande
Stretching out on the heath
Tu regardais les cieux
You were gazing at the skies
Moi je te contemplais
While I was admiring you
Le roux de tes cheveux
The copper of your hair
Dénoués sur la lande
Unbound on the heath
Sur le vert de l'Irlande
On the green of Ireland
Était vague de feu
Was a hazy flame
De nos vertes années
Of our verdant years
Qui verrouillaient l'enfance
That locked away childhood
Dont je n'ai malgré moi
That I have, despite myself
Jamais rien oublié
Never forgotten anything
De nos vertes années
Of our green years
En as-tu souvenance
Do you remember them
Viennent-elles parfois
Do they sometimes
Tendrement éclairer
Tenderly illuminate
Un coin de tes pensées
A corner of your thoughts
Nos vertes années
Our green years
À la brise d'été
To the summer breeze
Tu offrais ton visage
You offered your face
Et tu semblais rêver
And you seemed to dream
Sans savoir qu'en mon cœur
Not knowing that in my heart
Venait de se lever
A storm and thunder
La tempête et l'orage
Had just risen
Car je demeurais sage
For I remained wise
Pudique et bouleversé
Modest and shaken
De nos vertes années
From our green years
Qui s'ouvraient sur la vie
That opened onto life
Et qui vivent à feu doux
And that live at a gentle fire
Au fil de mes pensées
Along the flow of my thoughts
De nos vertes années
From our green years
J'en ai la nostalgie
I feel the nostalgia
Ah, reviennent pour nous
Ah, they come back for us
Le temps d'un seul été
For the time of a single summer
Du fond de leur passé
From the depths of their past
De nos vertes années
From our green years
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Key vocabulary
- étions
- were
- deux
- twoB2
- lande
- heathC1
- roux
- reddishB1
- verrouillaient
- locked
- enfance
- childhood
- regardais
- watched
- contemplais
- contemplated
- cheveux
- hair
- irlande
- Ireland
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.