Le bricoleur [English translation]

While the unsual break's moments

When he don't fix somethin'

He's looking for somewhere

Where we can plant a nail again (toolbox) {x2}

The nail he sink instead

Of the yesterday's one, he'll replace it

Tomorrow by a better one

With the same as the day before yesterday by the way

{Chorus}

God, what a happiness !

God, what a happiness

To have a husband who tinkers

God, what a happiness !

God, what a happiness

To have a husband who tinkers

(Toolbox) {x2}

Over one of my pregnancies

In front of him, I was pestering all the time

Against the costly price

Of a baby's outfit (toolbox) {x2}

But when the baby has been born

I saw with a deeply joy

That my husband managed

To dress him

{Chorus}

He's making at this time

A new electrical system

Which will finally attain the man,

To turn wine into water (toolbox) {x2}

But he was wrong in his calculations

And when we want to drink at the pump

We may get

A big drink of electricity

{Chorus}

He's afraid that some scoundrels

Take his knives, his pincers,

When he goes to bed, he settle them

In the middle of his conjugal bed

And I wake up often at night

Dreaming of a promised land

Announced by a naughty touch

But it was only a crankshaft !

God, what a misfortune !

God, what a misfortune

To have a husband who tinkers

God, what a misfortune !

God, what a misfortune

To have a husband who tinkers

(Toolbox) {x2}

• Artist:Georges Brassens