Mademoiselle chante le blues [English translation]

Some people bring up kids in the depths of council housing

Some knock about from Brazil to Ukraine

Some honeymoon in Angouleme

There are even those that campaign in the streets with tracts and banners

Some can no longer stand being a sex symbol

Some sell love in the back of their car

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Don't be too jealous

Mademoiselle drinks red wine

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Some people type on machines for eight hours a day

Some woo men and women

Some lick boots like they are window shopping

There are even those that make films, that are called Marilyn

But Marilyn Smith will never be Norma Jean

You shouldn't think that (your) talent is all that you imagine it to be

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Don't be too jealous

Mademoiselle drinks red wine

Mademoiselle sings the blues

She has gospel in her voice and she believes it

Some women become nuns, lawyers, pharmacists

Some have said everything once they have said 'I love you'

Some are old spinsters from Angouleme

Some even pretend to be liberated women with their small joint and Phenobarbitone

Who mix life through rose coloured glasses with a picture of Epinal

Who want good for themselves without ever getting hurt

Mademoiselle sings the blues

Don't be too jealous

Mademoiselle drinks red wine

Mademoiselle sings the blues