Renaud
Dù qu’i sont lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1993
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:50
Dù qu'i sont tout's chés compagnies ed' mineurs
Where are all the miners' friends?
Qui allottent ed' sous terre faire ech' dur labeur
Who toil underground and endure hard labor?
Au pic, à ltriv'laine, rassaquer ech' carbon
With the pick, the shovel, digging for coal,
A l'abattache, au herchache, dù qu'i sont?
At the pit, in the search, where are they?
Dù qu'i sont tous les mineurs du grand saquache
Where are all the miners of the great mine?
A l'bowette, à front ed' talle, à l'accrochache
At the bar, with heads held high, gripping tight,
Méneux ed' quévaux, raccommodeux, porions
Lead by horses, fixers, porters,
Nou pères, nou hardis taïons, dis dù qu'i sont?
Our fathers, our brave workers, tell me where they are?
Dù qu'i sont chés rires ed' chés filles à gaillettes
Where are the laughter and the girls with laughter?
Oubliant leu peines pour einn'amourette
Forgetting their troubles for a little romance
Au moulinache, ouvrant comme chés garchons
At the mill, opening like dear boys
Nou lampistes et leu taillettes, dù qu'i sont?
Our lampists and their little tools, where have they gone?
Dù qu'i sont, i vous d'mind'ront un jour vou gosses
Where have they gone, they will remind you one day of your kids
Les souv'nirs ed'chés gins qui allottent à l'fosse
The memories of the guys who used to have their place in the pit
Pus d'chevalets, pas d'terrils, et pas d'corons
No more horses, no heaps, and no mines
'Vous lamint'rez aussi, dù qu'i sont?
'You will mourn them too, where have they gone?
Dù qu'i sont tout's chés compagnies ed' mineurs
Where have they gone, all the buddies of the miners
Porions, galibots, calins, ou ingénieurs
Porters, little guys, hugs, or engineers
Lampistes, filles à gaillettes, carrieux d'carbor'
Lampists, girls with little tools, workers of coal
Nou terrils, nos molettes, dis dù qu'i sont?
No more heaps, our wheels, say where have they gone?
Dù qu'i sont chés bons jonnes ed'douze tréize ans
Where are the good young ones, twelve and thirteen years old?
Au fond pousseux ed' barrous, les pieds in sang
At the slippery bottom of drowned sorrows, feet in blood.
Au jour trieux ed' caillaux et d'bon carbon
On the dreary day of stones and good coal.
Nou z'archelles ed' galibots, dù qu'i sont?
Our arches of little boats, where are they?
Dù qu'i sont les Sainte Barbe et les ducasses
Where are Sainte Barbe and the fairs?
Les fêtes ed' famille, les guinces, les fricasses
Family celebrations, the gatherings, the fricassees.
Loin d'chés grèv's et d'chés accidints du fond
Far from the strikes and the accidents down below.
El'tarte à gros bords, les canchons, dù qu'i sont?
The pie with tall edges, the songs, where are they?
Dù qu'i sont, i vous d'mind'ront un jour vou gosses
Where are they? They will remind you one day of your kids.
Les souv'nirs ed'chés gins qui allottent à l'fosse
The memories of the genes that float to the pit.
Pus d'chevalets, pas d'terrils, et pas d'corons
No more horse carts, no more slag heaps, and no more mining towns
'Vous lamint'rez aussi, dù qu'i sont?
'Will you also lament them, where have they gone?
Dù qu'i sont tout's chés compagnies ed' mineurs
Where have all the friends of the miners gone?
Porions, galibots, calins, ou ingénieurs
Porters, little workers, hugs, or engineers
Lampistes, filles à gaillettes, carrieux d'carbor'
Lamp lighters, girls with smiles, carpers of coal
Nou terrils, nos molettes, dis dù qu'i sont?
Our slag heaps, our gadgets, tell me where they are?
Dù qu'i sont les viux corons ed' chés mineurs
Where are the old mining towns of the miners?
Dù qu'in partageot insonne les bonheurs,
Where we shared sleepless nights of joy,
L'amitié all' s'trouvot sus l'seul ed'chés masons
Friendship found itself atop the only rooftops,
Les bons momints à ch'pignon, dis dù qu'i sont?
The good times at the corner, tell me where they are?
I sont rintrés dins l'légende ed' nou sièque
They've returned to the legend of our century
A l'fosse nou pères ont souffert, ont péri
In the depths, our fathers suffered, they perished
Leu durts misères méritent qu'in les respecte
Their harsh miseries deserve our respect
Conservons leu chevalets, et leu terrils
Let's preserve their memories, and their hills
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Key vocabulary
- bons
- goodA1
- compagnies
- companiesA1
- dur
- hardA1
- tous
- allB1
- taïons
- waitA2
- fêtes
- festivalsA1
- gros
- bigA1
- loin
- farA1
- respecte
- respectA1
- chés
- own
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.”