Le fossoyeur [English translation]

God knows I'm not a bad person

I've never wished people dead

But if people never died

I would die of hunger on my mound

I am a poor gravedigger

The living believe that I have no remorse

Earning my bread on the backs of the dead

But it bothers me and besides

I bury them reluctantly

I am a poor gravedigger

The more I let go of my emotions

The more my friends make fun of me

And they tell me: "Old man, at moments

You have a funeral expression on your face"

I am a poor gravedigger

However much I tell myself that nothing is eternal,

I can't find it completely natural

And I never succeed

In taking death as it comes

I am a poor gravedigger

Neither seen nor known, decent dead farewell

If from the bottom of the earth you see the good Lord

Tell him how much trouble it cost me

The last shovelful

I am a poor gravedigger

• Artist:Georges Brassens
• Album:La mauvaise réputation (1952)