
Renaud
Ch’méneu d’quévaux lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1993
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:28
In n'peut pas s'mette dins l'idée
We can't put our minds to it
Chou qu'ch'est qu'd'aller m'ner ch'bidet
Wow, what's going on with that goat of mine
Aussi vrai que j'appelle Nénesse
As sure as I call Nénesse
J'mène un qu'vau qui file comme l'espress
I ride a horse that runs like the express
Quand j'l'attelle sus min train d'balles
When I hitch him to my train of balls
Sitôt eul'vla qui s'imballe
Soon there he goes, losing his mind
Plus que j'saque sus ch'l'afilée
The more I try to keep him on track
I n'arrête pos d'filer
He just won't stop speeding
Si qu'i accroche einne féniesse
If he catches a stubborn lady
I arrache tout ins s'vitesse
He tears everything apart with his speed
Quand i sint l'train d'balles déhors
When the train of bullets is outside
Pour saquer i'ardoupe d'efforts
To suck the hard efforts
Des fos j'arrive à ch'treul
Sometimes I manage to be a fool
J'n'ai pus qu'des barrous sans reules
I only have rags without wheels
Ch'n'est point toudis rigolo
It's not always funny
D'êt' méneu d'quévaux
To be a driver of horses
A faire du soixante à l'heure
At sixty miles an hour
Min qu'vau i'est tout in sueur
While I'm drenched in sweat
Qu'in n'i'attelle deux trains d'balles d'un coup
As if we could hitch two trains of bullets at once
Sans r'noucher i vous saqu'ra tout
Without renouncing, it will suck you dry
Et filochant comme l'éclair
And shimmering like a flash of lightning
Les reules i n'touch'té plus l'fer
The rails no longer touch the iron
Ej'sorte dire tout partout qui passe
I sort of say everything everywhere that passes
"Gare o bien j't'ecrasse "
"Watch out or I'll crush you"
In m'a d'jà artrouvé
One already found me
D'zous min train d'balles dins ch'carné
In your mini train of bullets in this meat
Comme l'aut'jour eud'vive allure
Like the other day with that lively pace
Allant au burre Tiote Biture
Going to the bar, Little Drunk
Ech'quévau i'arrive si fèle
That horse arrives so fierce
Qu'i a monté chinq mètes d'équelle
That it climbed five meters of whatever
Ch'n'est point toudis riglolo
It's not always a joke,
D'êt méneu d'quévaux
To be a beast of a horse.
Mais il a eun' sal' manière
But he has a dirty way,
Comme i m'tourn' toudis l'derrière
Like he always turns his back on me.
Levant s'queue tout in visant m'tiête
Lifting his tail right in front of my head,
D'un coup d'vint i invol' em' barette
With a swing, he gets me with his barrette.
De ch'barrou comme un furieux
From that place like a furious guy,
Ej'bouche s'fuite j'appuie sus s'queue
I cover the escape, I press on his tail.
In r'niflant tout l'long de l'bowette
Sniffing all along the bow,
Eul parfum de l'sal'biête
The scent of the dirty beast.
In n'peut pas taper d'sus
We can't hit on it
Pour li s'inrvinger i rue
To him, it's like bending over in the street
I vaut mieux ed'tous ses vices
It's better to embrace all his vices
Fermer s'bouqu' et prind' eun' prise
Close your mouth and take a hold
Et c'qu'i a d'gravé dins s'tiête
And what's engraved in his mind
I faut qu'cha craque ou ben qu'cha pète
You have to crack or you explode
Ch'n'est point toudis riglolo
It's not always funny
D'êt méneu d'quévaux
To be the driver of horses
Mais v'là qu'el'semaine dernière
But there, last week
Arrife eul'vétérinaire
The veterinarian arrived
V'là ti pas qu'avot plein d'épate
Look at that, they've got us all amazed
Min quévau i'avot chinq pattes
But my horse used to have five legs
El'lend'main z'ingénieurs s'amin'nent
The next morning, engineers arrive
Pour constater l'phénomin'ne
To observe the phenomenon
Faut i faire i dit l'maréchal
You have to do it, says the marshal
In fer es'spécial
It's a special iron
In riot ed'sin sort
A riot of sorts
In arvettiant s'patte arsort
A twist to an unexpected paw
All'est automatique
It's all automatic
All'rinte all'sort a's'rintique
Everything goes out to the antique
Ch'est comme un parapluie
It's like an umbrella
Qui s'oufe, qui s'ferme, qui s'arplie
That opens up, that closes, that folds
Ah mon Dieu qu'ch'tot rigolo
Ah my God, how funny it is
Quand j'tos m'neu d'quévaux
When I turn to look at you
Ah mon Dieu qu'ch'tot rigolo
Ah my God, how funny it is
Quand j'tos m'neu d'quévaux
When I turn to look at you
Key vocabulary
- peut
- can
- mette
- put
- dins
- in
- idée
- idea
- chou
- cabbageB2
- ch'est
- isA1
- aller
- go
- ner
- nerve
- ch'bidet
- bidet
- aussi
- alsoA1
About this song
Renaud (Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan) is a French singer-songwriter. He is known for French-language chanson rooted in regional dialects and for topping French album and single charts across multiple decades, including award-winning releases such as “Boucan d’enfer” and “Toujours debout.”