Dans les prisons de Nantes [English translation]

In the prisons of Nantes

There is a prisoner

There is a prisoner

Whom nobody goes to see

But the daughter of the jailer

She brings him what to drink

To drink and to eat

To drink and to eat

And white shirts

When he wants to change them

One day she asks him

"I want to talk to you

I want to talk to you

They say all over town

That tomorrow you will die..."

"Since it needs to be that I will die

Untie my feet

Untie my feet."

The girl was naive

His feet she did untie.

Alert, the gallant man took off

In the Loire he did jump

In the Loire he did jump

All the bells of Nantes

Did start to ring

• Artist:Édith Piaf