La complainte des filles de joie [English translation]

Even though these catty bourgeois

Even though these catty bourgeois

Call them loose women

Call them loose women

They don't have fun every day

Swear, swear

They don't have fun every day.

Because even with cool heels*

Because even with cool heels*

Walking on the streets

Walking on the streets

Is exhausting for the legs**

Swear, swear

Is exhausting for the legs**

Not only they have calluses

Not only they have calluses

Corns and more

Corns and more

It's crazy how much they wear out shoes**

Swear, swear

It's crazy how much they wear out shoes**

There are clients, there are assholes

There are clients, there are assholes

Who never want to dip in water

Who never want to dip in water

Yet, they (the prostitutes) have to cuddle them

Swear, swear

Yet, they (the prostitutes) have to cuddle them

They have to give them a leg up

They have to give them a leg up

To go to seventh heaven

To go to seventh heaven

Money, don't think they steal it

Swear, swear

Money, don't think they steal it

They are despised by the public

They are despised by the public

They are jostled by the cops

They are jostled by the cops

And threatened by STD's

Swear, swear

And threatened by STD's

Even though all the time they make love

Even though all the time they make love

Twenty times a day they marry

Twenty times a day they marry

The wedding is never for them

Swear, swear

The wedding is never for them

Son of bumpkin and moron

Son of bumpkin and moron

Don't laugh at the poor Venus

Don't laugh at the poor Venus

The poor old nitwit

Swear, swear

The poor old nitwit

It was close, my man***

It was close, my man***

That this whore were your mother

That this whore were your mother

This whore you laugh at

Swear, swear

This whore you laugh at

• Artist:Georges Brassens