Quatre-vingt-quinze pour cent [English translation]

The Woman who's got what it takes it all

To give taste, offer spice of carnal joys,

Woman raising in us such brute passions,

The Woman is above all, ... sentimental!

Hand in hand, together, the lengthy strolls

The flowers, the serenades, the love notes...

The crimes, the follies for her eyes one commits

Delight her absolutely but albeit :

Ninety five times out of a one hundred

The woman is pretty bored whilst shaggin' ????????

Whether she keeps quiet, or confesses all

It is not all days 'beaver is set a-tingle'!

And all the poor blokes who are quite convinced

Of the contrary are cuckolds or tricked

At the time for the works of the flesh

By Jove! She is often sad, soulless

If it can't hear its heart thumping

The body ... is neither budging!

Except when she loves a man with tenderness

Always then, sensitive to his caress

Always well-disposed, inclined to emoting

She then gets bored ... without realising!

Or else when she has tyrannical needs

That she suffers nymphomaniac urges

She is then the one who gives her worshiper

A bloody hell of a quarter-hour! ...

(however):

Ninety five times out of a one hundred

The woman is pretty bored whilst shagging

Whether she keeps quiet, or confesses all

It is not all days 'beaver' is set a-tingle!

And all the poor blokes who are quite convinced

Of the contrary are cuckolds and foolished

At the time for the works of the flesh

By Jove! She is often sad, soulless

If it can't hear its heart thumping

The body ... is neither flinching!

The 'Again!', the 'that's good!', the 'keep going!'s ...

She shrieks to simulate she's in clouds getting

This is just pure charity! The angels' sighs

Are, in general,... merely pious lies!

Whose sole truly aims are that her partner

Thinks he's an extraordinary lover

That the imbecile and pretentious rooster

Perched onto her ... be not too much 'somber'! :

Ninety five times out of a one hundred

The woman is pretty bored whilst shagging

Whether she keeps quiet, or confesses all

It is not all days 'beaver is set a-tingle'!

And all the poor blokes who are quite convinced

Of the contrary are cuckolds and tricked

At the time for the works of the flesh

By Jove! She is often sad, mirthless

If it can't hear its heart thumping

The body ... is neither budging!

OK, I can hear the comments flooding in!...

Of those who, in Cythera, their castles build:

"It's only because you're inept, unskilful

That she can always keep her self-control!"...

Perhaps, but if the assaults come on hard

Of these small "have-you-seen-me-when-I-shag"s

Ladies, letting yourselves eat up the pleasure

While supine...Sing 'in petto' to lover!:

Ninety five times out of a one hundred

The woman is pretty bored whilst shagging

Whether she keeps quiet, or confesses all

It's not every day 'beaver is set a-tingle'!

And all the poor blokes who are quite convinced

Of the contrary are cuckolds and tricked

At the time for the works of the flesh

By Jove! She is often sad, 'soulless'

If it can't hear its heart pounding

The body ... is neither flinching!

• Artist:Georges Brassens