Conillet de vellut [English translation]

She was gentle like velvet,

and faint-hearted like a little rabbit.

Snoopy was her hero

and she liked to play like a boy

and by the hand

she would bring me left and write without stopping.

Like a kite

doing cartwheels in the sky,

(it's beautiful the time in love),

and that wasn't a lost time.

Little velvet bunny.

But the rabbit out of the nest

would deceive me with any goal,

I was lost in the shortfall

from a Nikon or a Hassenlblad…

I had to chose

or get lost or have

a "ménage à trois".

But this is immoral

when one is a man so proper,

Iberian, masculine and Christian,

and I remained alone and screwed,

little velvet bunny.

Elle, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar

plagiarised you in each issue.

They say that you were given a place by

Richard Avedon in New York.

You can't complain.

What you dreamed of is already in your hands.

People know you,

an adolescent loves you

and an old man wants to adopt you.

Are you happy with your new beau?

Little velvet bunny…

But today I've seen the open sky,

God, who is good and knows what I've suffered,

has given me his advice

in a shop display from the house of Castells,

and I've bought myself the book "Photography is an art".

And within a month

I will be better than Pomés**.

You know where you'll find me…

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cowardly little bunny.

Without an excuse nor a bill,

little velvet bunny.

• Artist:Joan Manuel Serrat
• Album:Serrat 4