Méditerranée [English translation]

Under the climate that makes the whole south-west sing,

Under the sun that makes melodies ripen,

In every corner you would think yourself in heaven,

Next to an always bluer sea, always more beautiful

And so that her beauty holds more gentleness

A thousand gardens serve as a necklace of flowers...

Mediterranean,

With your golden sunny islands,

With your cloudless shores,

With your enchanted sky,

Mediterranean,

It's a fairy that gave you

Your décor and your beauty,

Mediterranean!

Under the moonlight, do you hear in the distance,

Something like an echo rolling across the waves?

Do you hear the gay refrain of the drummers

Accompanied by the tremolo of the mandolins?

It is the song that comes to sooth each night

All the world's lovers whom she has seduced.

Mediterranean,

With your golden sunny islands,

With your cloudless shores,

With your enchanted sky,

Mediterranean,

It's a fairy that gave you

Your décor and your beauty,

Mediterranean!

• Artist:Tino Rossi