Complainte pour Ste. Catherine [English translation]

Me, I walk along Ste Catherine

Getting the warmth from the Métro

I don’t look through the shop windows

When it’s thirty below zero

We’ve been in politics for a long time

Twenty years of war against the mosquitos

I don’t feel intrepid

When it snows I don’t go skiing

I don’t have a motel in the Laurentians

Sunday night is hockey night

We’ve been in politics for a long time

Twenty years of war against the mosquitos

Don’t think that I’m an fool

Because I don’t drive a convertible

The glory is fairly useless

At the price of gas it’s too distressing

We’ve been in politics for a long time

Twenty years of war against the mosquitos

We’re all brothers ’cause we make

sure to always have a good time

Because we’re on the earth of men

And women and children as well

We’ve been in politics for a long time

Twenty years of war against the mosquitos

Don’t believe that we’re not Christians

On Sundays we walk our dogs

• Artist:Kate & Anna McGarrigle