Charlie t'iras pas au paradis [English translation]

Charlie oh Charlie, you won't go to Heaven (x2)

You harbor evil thoughts

You're a disgrace for the parish

You won't go to Heaven, Charlie

Here she stands behind a pillar.

I look at her kneeling

during Easter and Christmas days.

During the mass I see nothing but her.

She is as beautiful as the statue

of the Virgin and Child.

How am I supposed, pray,

to be able to pray?

Oh Charlie, you won't go to Heaven

Charlie, Charlie, you won't go to Heaven

My Heaven is her and nothing else.

No matter how scandalous,

as I sit in church

I think of Mary

and her eyes

I think of Mary

and her hands

and her body

and her heart

I think of Mary-Luisa.

Come and get it

And get it now

If you don't get it

You're a paw

I come to the mass an hour early

for the joy of seeing her coming.

And while she goes to confession

I'm jealous of the priest.

I stand up and kneel,

I feel like I'm crucified

by the inquisitive stares

of all these holy Joes.

Oh Charlie, you won't go to Heaven

Charlie, Charlie, you won't go to Heaven

I don't give a damn about your Heaven,

my Heaven is her and nothing else.

No matter how scandalous

on sundays in the church

I think of Mary

I think of Mary

and her eyes

and her hands

and her body

and her heart

I think of Mary-Luisa.

Come and get it

And get it now

If you don't get it

You're a paw

She will go out soon

and I'll miss her again.

Later these fools will laugh about me

at the counter of the village café.

You may well laugh, guys.

It may be a long time coming

but one day you will see her

coming out of the church holding my arm

Oh Charlie, you'll get your Heaven in the end

Charlie, Charlie, you'll get your Heaven.

SHe will be so beautiful in white,

I'll wear a hat and gloves.

And no matter how scandalous,

one day in the church

I will marry, marry, marry

Mary-Luisa

• Artist:Gilbert Bécaud