
Renaud
Hécatombe lyrics with English translation
- Language
- French
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1995
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 1:57
Au marché de Briv'-la-Gaillarde
At the market of Briv'-la-Gaillarde
A propos de bottes d'oignons
About some bundles of onions
Quelques douzaines de gaillardes
A few dozen lively ones
Se crêpaient un jour le chignon
One day tangled their bun
A pied, à cheval, en voiture
On foot, on horseback, by car
Les gendarmes mal inspirés
The poorly inspired gendarmes
Vinrent pour tenter l'aventure
Came to try their luck
D'interrompre l'échauffourée
To interrupt the scuffle
Or, sous tous les cieux sans vergogne
Yet, under all the skies without shame
C'est un usag' bien établi
It's a well-established routine
Dès qu'il s'agit d'rosser les cognes
As soon as it’s time to beat the thugs
Tout le monde se réconcilie
Everyone reconciles
Ces furies perdant tout' mesure
These furies losing all restraint
Se ruèrent sur les guignols
Rushed at the puppets
Et donnèrent je vous l'assure
And gave, I assure you
Un spectacle assez croquignol
A rather twisted spectacle
En voyant ces braves pandores
Seeing these brave cops
Etre à deux doigts de succomber
Being on the brink of succumbing
Moi, j'bichais car je les adore
I was cheering because I adore them
Sous la forme de macchabées
In the form of corpses
De la mansarde où je réside
From the attic where I reside
J'exitais les farouches bras
I stirred the fierce arms
Des mégères gendarmicides
Of the police-like hags
En criant: "Hip, hip, hip, hourra!"
Shouting: 'Hip, hip, hip, hooray!'
Frénétiqu' l'un' d'elles attache
Frenzied, one of them binds
Le vieux maréchal des logis
The old sergeant major
Et lui fait crier: "Mort aux vaches,
And makes him scream: 'Death to the cows,
Mort aux lois, vive l'anarchie!"
Death to the laws, long live anarchy!'
Une autre fourre avec rudesse
Another one roughly
Le crâne d'un de ses lourdauds
Pounds the skull of one of her fools
Entre ses gigantesques fesses
Between her gigantic buttocks
Qu'elle serre comme un étau
That she squeezes like a vise
La plus grasse de ses femelles
The fattest of her females
Ouvrant son corsage dilaté
Opening her dilated corset
Matraque à grand coup de mamelles
Clubbing with great blows of her breasts
Ceux qui passent à sa portée
Those who pass within her reach
Ils tombent, tombent, tombent, tombent
They fall, fall, fall, fall
Et s'lon les avis compétents
And according to expert opinions
Il paraît que cette hécatombe
It seems this slaughter
Fut la plus bell' de tous les temps
Was the most beautiful of all time
Jugeant enfin que leurs victimes
Finally judging that their victims
Avaient eu leur content de gnons
Had had their fair share of bumps
Ces furies comme outrage ultime
These furies like an ultimate affront
En retournant à leurs oignons
Returning to their own concerns
Ces furies à peine si j'ose
These furies I can hardly dare
Le dire tellement c'est bas
To say it, it’s so low
Leur auraient mêm' coupé les choses
Would have even cut off their things
Par bonheur ils n'en avait pas
Fortunately they had none
Leur auraient mêm' coupé les choses
Would have even cut off their things
Par bonheur ils n'en avait pas
Fortunately they had none
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Key vocabulary
- choses
- thingsA1
- coupé
- cutA1
- forme
- shapeA1
- grand
- bigA1
- mort
- deathA1
- peine
- painA1
- plus
- moreA1
- tellement
- soA1
- temps
- timeA1
- vieux
- oldA1
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.”