Cent ans de plus [English translation]

a hundred years in the slave's skin

and right after that, a hundred more years

looking for crumbs under the tables

before the whites step on them

sleeping on bundles of planks

singing only on sunday

you see the black woman

in the role of the maid

and right by her side

her man, all bent

after that, it shouldn't surprise you

it's them who made

them who made

son house and charlie patton

howlin' wolf and blind lemon

so red, the blood of africa

on the lovely cotton flower

the all new america

the beautiful democracy, welcome

ships deporting villages

at the end of the immense voyage

engraved in memory

for light years

each ivory teardrop

each iron collar

after that, it shouldn't surprise you

it's them who made

them who made

son house and charlie patton

howlin' wolf and blind lemon

always pleasing the ghost merchants

she who is bought and he who is given

born with the longest sentence

still living in what we are

a people shut out from humanity

seeking the blue of the ancient kingdom

them who made, it shouldn't surprise you

son house and charlie patton

blind blake and willie dixon

ma rainey and robert johnson

howlin' wolf and blind lemon

son house and charlie patton