Les Champs-Élysées [English translation]
Les Champs-Élysées [English translation]
I went for a walk on the avenue
my heart open to the unknown
I felt like greeting whoever
Whoever, was you,
I said anything to you
It was enough to speak to you,
to get to know you.
On Champs-Elysées,
On Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain,
at midday or at midnight
There is all that you want
On Champs-Elysées.
You said to me "I have appointment
in a basement with loons (crazy-guys)
Who live guitar at the hand,
from evening till morning"
Then I followed you,
We sang, we danced
We did not even think
of kissing.
On Champs-Elysées,
On Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain,
at midday or at midnight
There is all that you want
On Champs-Elysées.
Yesterday evening two strangers
And this morning on the avenue
Two lovers very dazed
by the long night
from the Etolie to the Concorde
an orchestra in thousand chords
The dawn chorus sings of love [Lit:All birds of daybreak sing of love.
On Champs-Elysées,
On Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain,
At midday or at midnight
There is all that you want
On Champs-Elysées.
On Champs-Elysées,
On Champs-Elysées
In the sun, in the rain,
At midday or at midnight
There is all that you want
On Champs-Elysées.
- Artist:Joe Dassin
- Album:Les Champs-Élysées (1969)