
Charles Trenet
Coin de rue lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1954
- Genre
- French Pop, Tradicional
- Length
- 3:24
Je me souviens d'un coin de rue
I remember a corner of the street
Aujourd'hui disparu
Today it's gone
Mon enfance jouait par là
My childhood played around there
Je me souviens de cela
I remember that well
Il y avait une palissade
There was a fence
Un taillis d'embuscades
A thicket of ambushes
Les voyous de mon quartier
The hoodlums from my neighborhood
Venaient s'y batailler
Came to fight there
A présent, il y a un café
Now, there's a café
Un comptoir flambant qui fait de l'effet
A shiny counter that makes an impression
Une fleuriste qui vend ses fleurs aux amants
A florist selling her flowers to lovers
Et même aux enterrements
And even at funerals
Je revois mon coin de rue
I see again my street corner
Aujourd'hui disparu
Today disappeared
Je me souviens d'un triste soir
I remember a sorrowful evening
Où le cœur sans espoir
Where the heart felt no hope
Je pleurais en attendant
I cried while waiting
Un amour de quinze ans
For a love that lasted fifteen years
Un amour qui fut perdu
A love that was lost
Juste à ce coin de rue
Right at that street corner
Et depuis j'ai beaucoup voyagé
And since then I've traveled a lot
Trop souvent en pays étrangers
Too often in foreign lands
Mondes neufs constructions et démolitions
New worlds, constructions and demolitions
Vous me donnez des visions
You give me visions
Je crois voir mon coin de rue
I think I see my corner of the street
Et soudain apparus
And suddenly appeared
Je retrouve ma palissade
I find my fence again
Mes copains mes glissades
My friends, my slides
Mon muguet de deux sous de printemps
My two-cent lily of the valley of spring
Mes quinze ans... mes vingt ans
My fifteen years... my twenty years
Tout ce qui fut et qui n'est plus
All that was and is no more
Tout mon vieux coin de rue
All my old corner of the street
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Key vocabulary
- aujourd'hui
- todayA1
- café
- coffeeA1
- coin
- cornerA1
- enfance
- childhoodA1
- là
- thereA1
- rue
- streetA1
- souviens
- remember
- disparu
- disappeared
- jouait
- played
- palissade
- palisadeC2
About this song
Charles Trenet was a French singer-songwriter associated with French chanson, active for more than 60 years. He wrote both music and lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs, including “La Mer,” and collaborated with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac.