Ménilmontant [English translation]

Ménilmontant oh yes, madam

It's there that I left my heart

It's there that I'm coming to find my soul again

All my flame, all my happiness...

When I see my little church again

Where the weddings go joyously

When I see my old grey house again

Where even the breeze talks of yesteryear

They recount to me like in the past

Pretty tales

Beautiful days passed I see you again

A meeting, a music

Dreamy eyes, all a novel

All a novel of poetic and pathetic love

Ménilmontant!

When midday strikes

Life awakens once again

Everything resounds

With a thousand echos

The assistant takes her lunch at the bistro

The chatterbox

Reads her newspapers

Here is the green gate

Here is the open door

That squeaks a little to say "Hello hello

So you've returned?"

Ménilmontant oh yes, madam

It's there that I left my heart

It's there that I'm coming to find my soul again

All my flame

All my happiness...

When I see my little train station again

Where every train leaves joyfully

I still hear in the hurly-burly

Strange words

Words of farewell

I am not a poet, but I am moved

And in my head there are memories never lost

A winter evening, a music

Very soft eyes yours Mother

All a novel of poetic and pathetic love

Ménilmontant!