Les croquants [English translation]

The rich farmers ride to town astride their moneybags,

to buy some virgins from proper good people,

the rich bastards give a price in money to get

their hands on them, there hands under…

But Lisa’s flesh, the fresh flesh of Lison

(let the rich arseholes get over it)

is for the lips of the first to come

who has tender eyes and empty hands...

{Refrain:-}

The rich ones, it makes them sad, it

amazes them, astonishes them,

That a girl, a lovely girl like that

gives herself, gives herself up

to the first Ostrogoth1 who turns up:

the rich lot just ca't understand it.

Well mannered girls, girls of good character,

who have sold their innocence by public auction at the fair

go to wallow in the rich bastards’ beds,

when the rich bastards say they want it...

But Lisa’s flesh, the cool flesh of Lison

(let the rich arseholes2 get over it)

has never given its favours

in exchange for money, against heart’s desire...

{Refrain}

The girls for the fine life have solid hearts

and the flower that’s found there has a long waranty

like the paper flowers on a hat

the stone flowers on a tombstone...

But Lisa’s heart, the grand heart of Lison

likes to change its image at every season:

never twice the same colour

never twice the same flower...

{Refrain}

1. I guess “Ostrogoth” means someone who is of what the rich peasants think is a social class inferior to theirs2. literally somethink like "arses embroidered in gold"

• Artist:Georges Brassens
• Album:Je me suis fait tout petit