Charles Trenet
Le Mur-mûr lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1995
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 1:26
Une vache sur un mur
A cow on a wall
Qui rumine du pain dur
That chews on hard bread
Rumini rumina
Lève la queue et puis s'en va
Lifts its tail and then walks away
Un oiseau sur une ardoise
A bird on a slate
Qui mangeait quelques framboises
That was eating some raspberries
Les mangi les mangea
The eaters, they devoured them
Et ne laissa rien au chat
And left nothing for the cat
Un matou sur une table
A tomcat on a table
Qui écoutait la radio
That was listening to the radio
L'écoutait par ses moustaches
Listened with his mustaches
En clignant ses yeux de feu
As he blinked his fiery eyes
Moustachi moustacha
Mustachi moustacha
Lève la queue et se fâcha
Lifted his tail and got mad
Une puce dans mon lit
A flea in my bed
Me réveille cette nuit
Wakes me up tonight
Moi les yeux que j'écarquille
Me with eyes wide open
Elle avec ses deux béquilles
She with her two crutches
Béquilli béquilla
Crutchy crutched
Bégaya et me piqua
Stammered and bit me
Un poète dans le ciel
A poet in the sky
Se prenait pour l'Éternel
Thought he was the Eternal
Éterni éterna
Eternal eternally
Sur un nuage éternua
Sneeze upon a cloud
Le monde fut renversé
The world was overturned
La lune s'était cassée
The moon had broken
Il y avait des souris vertes
There were green mice
Qui annonçaient la découverte
Who announced the discovery
On les crut on les croit
We believed them, we believe them
Moi j'ai cru qu'elles étaient cuites
I believed they were cooked
Cuites mangez-en de suite
Eat them right away
Je n'aime pas les souris
I don't like mice
Moi j'en mange le jeudi
I eat them on Thursdays
Le lundi et le mardi
On Mondays and Tuesdays
Où donc?
Where then?
Au paradis!
In paradise!
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Key vocabulary
- dur
- hardA1
- pain
- breadA1
- puis
- thenA1
- ciel
- skyA1
- donc
- thereforeA1
- rumine
- ruminate
- rumini
- ruminate
- rumina
- ruminate
- lève
- raisesB2
- queue
- tailA2
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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.