Les plus belles années de ma vie [English translation]

I had been dreaming for a long time of my first guitar,you know

I was crazy,i was fifteen years old,I didn't dare to believe it

My parents didn't agree ,they knew by heart

My three songs on two chords, I awaited for my moment

I was crazy of Bécaud, Brassens and Aznavour

I was falling asleep on my radio, I was making contests

Then I discovered the english groups, I watched them on TV

their movements that I was redoing in my attic

You who gave me the most beautiful years of my life

My biggest hopes,also my biggest regrets

I loved you so much,you my music, my first great love

I tried many times to follow you,however I was always

a step behind,seeking how to please you

1965 in Golf Drouot, that was nights without an ending

the music in the skin and everything for my friends

In a club in the suburbs we used to repeat our songs

And if the neighbors shouted slightly,we forgave them

And then the seventies,the lost in nature festivals

we were thousands under the stars for some covers

people danced,clap their hands,we believed in it already

And Avignon was already a suburb of the Olympia

You who gave me the most beautiful years of my life

My biggest hopes,also my biggest regrets

I loved you so much,you my music, my first great love

I tried many times to follow you,however I was always

a step behind,seeking how to please you

1972,it was Paris,the group was dispersed

When I met Mary-Cristine,I was on the pavement

The night to pay a bedroom we spent all our money

But I told her my life and she understood me

And she followed me in hundreds of recording compagnies

where the people that listened to my songs didn't like them

And when I sold my old guitar it was her who helped me

to finally understand that it would never work

You who gave me the most beautiful years of my life

My biggest hopes,also my biggest regrets

I loved you so much,you my music, my first great love

I tried many times to follow you,however I was always

a step behind,seeking how to please you

• Artist:Joe Dassin
• Album:13 Chansons Nouvelles (1973)