Dalida
Gitane lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1956
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:58
Gitane, gitane, gitane
Gypsy, gypsy, gypsy
Devant le grand café aux tables ennuyées
In front of the grand café with bored tables
Tout s'est ensoleillé quand elle est arrivée
Everything brightened when she arrived
La gitane
The gypsy
Fille d'Esmeralda tu déroules tes bras
Daughter of Esmeralda, you stretch your arms
Et tes yeux noirs défient les hommes et leurs envies
And your dark eyes challenge men and their desires
Lorsque tes reins se cassent, tes longs cheveux ramassent
When your hips sway, your long hair gathers
Le soleil en pépites et ton ventre palpite
The sun in nuggets and your belly quivers
Bourgeois et va-nu-pied te regardent danser
Bourgeois and barefoot watch you dance
Mais les femmes voudraient bien que tu ailles plus loin
But the women wish you would go further
Tu ris à pleine dent et continue le bal
You laugh wide and keep the dance going
Comme un jeune animal qui se saoûle en tournant
Like a young creature getting tipsy while spinning
On ne sait d'où tu viens
We don't know where you're from
On ne sait où tu vas
We don't know where you're headed
Poussée sur le chemin
Pushed along the path
Comme une fleur des bois
Like a wildflower blooming
Gitane, gitane, gitane
Gypsy, gypsy, gypsy
Dans le feu de la danse lorsque le voile glisse
In the heat of the dance when the veil slips away
De tes seins qui frémissent y a de drôle de silences
From your trembling breasts come curious silences
Oh gitane
Oh gypsy
Tes jambes nues piétinent les regrets qui cheminent
Your bare legs trample the regrets that wander
Dans les yeux de bado qui caressent ta peau
In the eyes of the fool that caress your skin
Fini le tourbillon tu passes et fais la quête
The whirlwind is over, you pass and make your plea
Frôlant de ton jupon les spectateurs honnêtes
Brushing your petticoat against the honest spectators
"Sois généreux señor la jeunesse de mon corps
"Be generous, señor, the youth of my body
Ça vaut bien un peu d'or même un peu plus encore"
Is worth quite a bit of gold, maybe even more still"
Et riant aux éclats déjà sous les platanes
And laughing out loud already beneath the plane trees
Déjà sous les platanes
Already beneath the plane trees
Est partie la gitane
The gypsy has departed
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Key vocabulary
- gitane
- Gypsy
- bras
- armA1
- tout
- allA1
- esmeralda
- emerald
- déroules
- unrollB1
- yeux
- eyes
- défient
- defy
- lorsque
- whenA2
- reins
- kidneysB2
- cassent
- break
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About this song
Dalida was a French singer and actress of Egyptian origin, associated with French pop and disco. She is known for chart records such as the long run of “Bambino” and for “J’attendrai,” the first disco hit with French lyrics.