A París [English translation]

Paris la vie c'est joli

Paris la vie c'est comme ça

Sings a shadow in Paris

On the streets of Pigalle

A rose of a black profile

Open the "flowers of evil"1

Leaving over Paris

Comme un souvenir

Of fever and cognac.

When the moonlight turns

the sight into a snake,

Biting the apple

Under the moonlight,

The waist burns

For love in the flames

As you will understand, Monsieur

It's infernal rhythm of life,

The thorn of this song,

With the heart

To Paris it will go.

To Paris

To Paris mon coeur s'en va

To Paris

To Paris j'avais 20 ans

To Paris

To Paris c'est tout c'est toi

To the rhythm of the accordion

Love is embraced

With loneliness.

Allez venez-vous Milord

Allez venez-vous Madame

Ecouter cette chanson

It's spring in Pigalle,

We have to live and laugh,

And we have to laugh and dream

From here there is nothing better

For the heart

That to love and forget.

Α life so rosy

Of the Love of a madman

And a butterfly,

The story of 'Theo Sarapo'2,

A teddy bear,

Who loved a goddess

Don't waste your time to suffer,

You must learn to fly

Forget all things and live happily,

Which only in Paris

One can forget.

1. In French "Les Fleurs du mal" is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire2. Theophanis Lamboukas, known as "Théo Sarapo" was the second husband of the French singer Édith Piaf.