La musique que j'aime [English translation]

All the music I love

it comes from there, it comes from the blues

Words are never the same

to express what blues is

I put my joys there, I put my sorrows there

and it all becomes the blues

I sing it as much as I love it

and I will sing it always

A long time ago, on guitars

black hands gave birth to it

to sing the sufferings and hopes

to sing God and love too

Music will stay alive as long as the blues lives

The blues, that means that I love you

and it's an agony1

I cry, but I still sing,

this is my prayer to keep you

All the music I love

it comes from there, it comes from the blues

Words are never the same

to express what blues is

I put my joys there, I put my sorrows there

and it all becomes the blues

I sing it as much as I love it

and I will sing it always

A long time ago, on guitars

black hands gave birth to it

to sing the sufferings and hopes

to sing God and love too

Music will stay alive as long as the blues lives

The blues, that means that I love you

and it's an agony

I cry, but I still sing,

this is my prayer to keep you

All the music I love

it comes from there, it comes from the blues

Words are never the same

to express what blues is2

1. lit. "it hurts so bad I could die", that's idiomatic2. you said that for the third time, Johnny :)

• Artist:Johnny Hallyday
• Album:Insolitudes (1973)