Charles Trenet
Les enfants s’ennuient le dimanche lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1938
- Genre
- Chanson
- Length
- 2:28
Les enfants s'ennuient le dimanche
Children are bored on Sundays
Le dimanche les enfants s'ennuient
On Sundays, the children are bored
En knickerbocker ou en robe blanche
In knickerbockers or in white dresses
Le dimanche les enfants s'ennuient
On Sundays, the children are bored
Que ce soit promenade ou tartine
Be it a walk or a slice of bread,
Pâtissier pas plus que les bois
Baker no more than the woods
N'auront de succès
Will have any success.
Gamins et gamines
Boys and girls
Sont plus tristes que maman ne croit
Are sadder than mom believes.
Vienne, vienne la semaine
Come, come the week.
Lundi, mardi, jeudi
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Car la rue est toujours pleine
Because the street is always full
De lumière et de bruit
Of light and noise
A travers les rues sans rien dire
Through the streets without a word
On parcourt la ville sans fin
We roam the city endlessly
Y a qu'les mannequins
Only the mannequins
Qui font des sourires
Who smile
Aux vitrines des grands magasins
At the windows of the big stores
Vienne, vienne la semaine
Come on, come on, the week
Lundi, mardi, jeudi
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Car la rue est toujours pleine
For the street is always full
De lumière et de bruit
Of light and noise
Les parents s'ennuient le dimanche
Parents get bored on Sundays
Le dimanche les parents s'ennuient
On Sundays, parents get bored
Avec leurs faux cols
With their false collars
Leurs lorgnons et leurs barbes blanches
Their spectacles and their white beards
Le dimanche les parents s'ennuient
On Sundays, parents get bored
Vienne, vienne la semaine
Come, come the week
Lundi, mardi, jeudi
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Car la rue est toujours pleine
For the street is always full
De lumière et de bruit
Of light and noise
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Key vocabulary
- ennuient
- bore
- knickerbocker
- trousers
- blanche
- whiteC2
- pâtissier
- pastry chefB2
- auront
- will have
- gamins
- kidsA2
- gamines
- girls
- croit
- grows
- vienne
- arrive
- travers
- acrossB1
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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.