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LES BELLES ÉTRANGÈRES (French)
Michelle Senlis (1933-2020) / Jean Ferrat (1930-2010)

Les belles étrangères qui vont aux corridas
Et qui se pâment d'aise devant la muleta*
Les belles étrangères, sous leur chapeau huppé
Ont le teint qui s'altère à l'heure de l'épée

Allons, laissez-moi rire, on chasse, on tue, on mange
On taille dans le cuir des chaussures, on s'arrange
Et dans les abattoirs où l'on traîne les bœufs
La mort ne vaut guère mieux qu'aux arènes le soir

Les belles étrangères, quand montent les clameurs
Se lèvent les premières en se tenant le cœur
Les belles étrangères se jurent à jamais
De chasser Ordóñez** de leurs rêves secrets

Allons laissez-moi rire, quand le taureau s'avance
Ce n'est pas par plaisir que le torero danse
C'est que l'Espagne a trop d'enfants pour les nourrir
Qu'il faut parfois choisir la faim ou le taureau

Les belles étrangères, végétariennes ou pas
Quittent leur banc de pierre au milieu du combat
Quittent leur banc de pierre au milieu du combat.
THE BEAUTIFUL FOREIGN LADIES


The beautiful foreign ladies who go to bullfights
And who swoon over the muleta
The beautiful foreign ladies, under their classy hats
Have their complexion that alters at the hour of the sword

Come on, let me laugh, we hunt, we kill, we eat
We cut the shoes in the leather, we make do with it,
And in the slaughterhouses where the oxen are dragged
Death is hardly better than in the arenas in the evening

The beautiful foreign ladies, when the clamor rises,
Are the first to rise, holding their hearts
The beautiful foreign ladies vow to forever
Drive Ordóñez out of their secret dreams

Come on, let me laugh, when the bull comes forward
It is not for pleasure that the bullfighter dances
It's because Spain has too many children to feed them
That sometimes you have to choose hunger or bull

The beautiful foreign ladies, vegetarians or not,
Leave their stone bench in the middle of the fight
Leave their stone bench in the middle of the fight.
*muleta: the stick with a red cloth hanging from it that is used in the final third and obscures the sword
**Ordóñez: Antonio Ordóñez Araujo (6 February 1932 – 19 December 1998): a Spanish bullfighter

Recording by Jean Ferrat
1966 live rendition by Jean Ferrat
Live rendition by Dupont et Pondu

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