Cinématographe [English translation]

When I was six years old

The first time

Daddy's taking me to the movies

I found that

More thrilling than anything

There was on the screen

Funny guys

Mustaches

Proud swashbuckler

Some who kill each other

Every time i find

A hair in the dish

A piano played atmospheric things

Guillaum 'Tell or the open air of Trouvère

And all the public

In quivering

Going for these good people

It was cheap

We had for his three francs

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, as day

Blonde, blonde, blonde, blonde, as love

A dream is on the screen

And in the dark room

Hands are looking, hands are found

Timidly

Station, train station, station, station, here we go again

And in the room more than one heart beats

The car where she thinks she is safe

Just crash on the floor

With a broken axle

The bandit will be able to put the hand

On the money, it's tragic

No of a dog

It's over, everything comes on

See you next Wednesday

Now this is

More my dad

Who accompanies me to the movies

Because he plants his cabbages

There not far from Saint Cucupha

But I met

Attila

A mustachioed guy like that

He loves to go on Wednesday

In the cinemas

Of course it is dev'nu the cinemascope

But it always rams and it gallops

And it stays still as before

Filled with cov'boill's lawlessness

And vigilantes who come to poke

Their big foot in the dish

Station, railway station, railway station, railway station, Gary Cooper

Approaching the ravine of hell

Be careful poor moron

Alan Ladd is not far away

At five hundred meters it is a ball

In a bread crouton

Station, station, station, station, during that time

I feel that I am in his big arm

The armchair where I was sure

Do not stop this 'raw' from trying

Kissing me

I did not see if Gary would win

But it's the permanent cinema

My darling, remember, we stayed for a year

And we had a lot of kids

• Artist:Boris Vian