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On YouTube, please look exactly for:
- Marie Dubas - La Charlotte prie Notre-Dame (1934) Vieux Disques The original.
- La Charlotte Prie Notre-Dame Dominick Noel
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The Charlotte Prays Our Lady
(rough translation)
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Look at this, this kind of band of idiots /
They jostle you, they would not ask you for forgiveness /
So go eh! False Ch'man, Eh Puree /
Tonight, it's New Year's Eve /
We only see laughter /
I would shout "Fire" or "Thief" /
Nobody would pay attention /
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Come see, it's Saint-Poivrot /
Everything heckles, everything flames, everything shines /
The restaurants, the bistros /
They have permission of the night /
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Everyone thinks only to crunch /
There are plenty of people in rotisseries /
The epicemarts, the charcuteries /
Oh! How it smells good, grilled blood sausage ... /
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Christmas! Christmas! Let's sing, let's sing Christmas! /
Christmas! Christmas! Let's sing, let's sing Christmas! /
Midnight. Now Jesus is born /
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In the times, when he came /
If it froze as it freezes tonight /
On the straw of your stable /
You must have been cold, Jesus /
And you, Virgin Mary /
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I'm here, Holy Virgin, at my corner /
Where, from the apero, I stamp my feet (to keep warm) /
I'm just junk, a lost girl /
The Charlotte, we call me /
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Say, you're not angry /
That a girl of love, full of sins /
Talks to you, tonight in her own way /
To explain her miseries? /
Say, you're not angry? /
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Come on! Bing! There I am, jostled, and with liters /
Four-pound buns, oyster plates /
But look at that kind of camel! /
Oh! Sorry, excuse me, Virgin Mary /
Now I have said another nasty word /
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It's true that I left our house /
But it was only poverty, and blows /
It was real hell, Holy Virgin /
And, be it said, without being a cheeky, /
You yourself would not have stayed there /
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Well, this is not patter (empty chattering talk) /
That's right, I swear to you, Virgin Mary /
Despite, like that, that I made the life /
I thought of you very often /
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I see your beautiful blue dress, your veil /
It was even stung with stars /
Your beautiful gold crown on your head /
Your little treasure in your arms /
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Well, if you wanted, Holy Virgin /
To do something, tonight, for me /
For that time when I was not impious /
You just have to lift a finger /
And to not worry about the rest /
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I'm not asking you for dishonest things /
Do only so that I find, and pick up /
A wallet with much money /
Lost by one of those passing muzzles /
To me rather than to the sweeper /
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Or, if you do not want /
Or you can not, Virgin Mary /
Ah! You will find me very bold /
So let me jump right now /
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And then, take me with you /
Take me to Paradise /
Where it's hot, where it's mild /
Where never again will I make life /
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Ah! Take me away, say, take me away /
Before the night has passed /
And I got picked up again /
Take me away, say, I beg you /
Oh! I can not stop shivering /
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Here, light my chapped hands /
My little shoes uncovered /
I still have my summer costume /
That I had dyed black for winter /
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Oh yes! Oh yes, say, take me away /
And as there must be a long way /
If, sometimes, you felt tired /
Virgin Mary, full of grace /
Of carrying our Lord /
A child is heavy in the end /
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You will pass Him to me /
And then, I will carry Him myself /
Without letting Him fall to the ground /
As I did at my parents' house /
The little mother in the suburbs /
When I carried my little brothers ... /
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Virgin Mary, full of grace /
You, who are blessed among all women /
Pray for us, poor sinners /
Pray for us, poor sinners /
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Ave Maria! Ave Maria! /
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Pray for us, poor sinners /
Ave! /
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Lyrics: Jehan Rictus / Music: Fernand Warms (1920)
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- Mozart - Figaro - Fischer-Dieskau and cast - Contessa perdono.mp4 Dec 4, 2009 beatbackthejungle