Manuréva [English translation]

Manu, Manuréva

Where are you, Manu Manuréva?

A ghost ship, you dreamed

of islands and never made it there.

Where are you, Manu Manuréva?

Reported missing Manuréva

You drifted for days on end

but never ever made it

over there.

Did you run aground on the Jamaican coast?

Oh, heroic Manuréva...

Do you rest on Santiago's or Cuba's reefs?

Where are you, Manuréva?

Among the Alaskan ices, ah-ah?

Where are you, Manu Manuréva?

Reported missing Manuréva

A ghost ship, you dreamed

of islands and never made it there.

You drifted, oh, Manuréva

away, Manuréva,

over there.

Did you glimpse the lights of Nouméa?

Oh, heroic Manuréva.

Would you have sunk off Bora-Bora?

Where are you, Manuréva, ah-ah?

Among the Alaskan ices, ah-ah?

Where are you, Manu Manuréva?

Reported missing Manuréva

You drifted for days on end

but never ever made it

over there.

Over there

Over there

• Artist:Alain Chamfort
• Album:Poses (1979)