La File Indienne [English translation]

A poodle dog with a cheeky eye, coming from from his crush

Wiggling of the rump and flapping of the sole

Descended, with a brag, the Boulevard de Sébastopol

Wiggling of the rump and doubling the step

A lass on a rest day liked to follow the mutt

Wiggling of the rump and flapping of the sole

Without seeing that her magnetic body was dragging a young lad along

Wiggling of the rump and doubling the step

However, the lover of this one, jealous, also followed him

Wiggling of the rump and flapping of the sole

And the old husband of that one, he followed her with his flat feet

Wiggling of the rump and doubling the step

A tough scarred guy ran after the old man he thought was Croesus

Wiggling of the rump and flapping of the sole

And behind the tough scarred guy walked a muffled cop

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And all of them, mutt, lass, lad, wife, husband, and tough guy and cop

Wiggling of the rump and flapping of the sole

Went down in single file along the so populous boulevard

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The animal suddenly desecrates the feet of the lass

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Furious she gives with fervor a pair of slaps to her follower

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This one, head upside down, sees the jealous woman with his eye wide open

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And agonizes him of witty insults that I'll tell you at the end1

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Behind came the husband, it was him that she attacked

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Calling him, in a high-pitched voice, a cuckold drum major

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Husband turning back sees the tough guy and tells him, kid

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It's too late to rob me, my wife got ahead of you

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The tough guy, annoyed with his fiasco, draws a shining knife

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That he plants to the joy of the public, through the carcass of the cop

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And all, bandit, couple, lad, lass, mutt, all, except the cop

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Followed in single file the funeral of the cop, obviously

Wiggling of the rump and doubling the step

1. Litteraly : "at the exit" of the concert hall

• Artist:Georges Brassens