Les Champs-Élysées [English translation]

I went for a walk on the avenue

my heart open to the unknown

I felt like greeting whoever

Whoever, was you,

I said anything to you

It was enough to speak to you,

to get to know you.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the sun, in the rain,

at midday or at midnight

There is all that you want

On Champs-Elysées.

You said to me "I have appointment

in a basement with loons (crazy-guys)

Who live guitar at the hand,

from evening till morning"

Then I followed you,

We sang, we danced

We did not even think

of kissing.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the sun, in the rain,

at midday or at midnight

There is all that you want

On Champs-Elysées.

Yesterday evening two strangers

And this morning on the avenue

Two lovers very dazed

by the long night

from the Etolie to the Concorde

an orchestra in thousand chords

The dawn chorus sings of love [Lit:All birds of daybreak sing of love.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the sun, in the rain,

At midday or at midnight

There is all that you want

On Champs-Elysées.

On Champs-Elysées,

On Champs-Elysées

In the sun, in the rain,

At midday or at midnight

There is all that you want

On Champs-Elysées.

• Artist:Joe Dassin
• Album:Les Champs-Élysées (1969)