Aux Champs-Élysées [English translation]

I was strolling on the avenue

My heart open to the unknown

I felt like saying hello

To no matter who

No matter who, and it was you

And I said to you no matter what

Just speaking to you was enough

To win you over

On the Champs-Élysées

On the Champs-Élysées

In the sun, in the rain

At noon or at midnight

There’s everything you want

On the Champs-Élysées

You said to me, “I have an appointment

“In a cellar with some lunatics

“Who live with guitar in hand

“From evening to morning.”

So I went along with you

We sang, we danced,

And we didn’t even think

About kissing

On the Champs-Élysées

On the Champs-Élysées

In the sun, in the rain

At noon or at midnight

There’s everything you want

On the Champs-Élysées

Yesterday evening two strangers

And this morning on the avenue

Two lovers dazed

By the long night

And from the Étoile to the Concorde1

An orchestra of a thousand strings

All the birds at break of day

Are singing of love

On the Champs-Élysées

On the Champs-Élysées

In the sun, in the rain

At noon or at midnight

There’s everything you want

On the Champs-Élysées

1. That is, the whole length of the avenue