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VOTRE FILLE A 20 ANS (French)
(Georges Moustaki 1934 – 2013)

Votre fille a 20 ans, que le temps passe vite
Madame, hier encore elle était si petite
Et ses premiers tourments sont vos premières rides
Madame, et vos premiers soucis

Chacun de ses 20 ans pour vous a compté double
Vous connaissiez déjà tout ce qu'elle découvre
Vous avez oublié les choses qui la troublent
Madame, et vous troublaient aussi

On la trouvait jolie, et voici qu'elle est belle
Pour un individu presque aussi jeune qu'elle
Un garçon qui ressemble à celui pour lequel
Madame, vous aviez embelli

Ils se font un jardin d'un coin de mauvaise herbe
Nouant la fleur de l'âge en un bouquet superbe
Il y a bien longtemps qu'on vous a mise en gerbe
Madame, le printemps vous oublie

Chaque nuit qui vous semble à chaque nuit semblable
Pendant que vous rêvez vos rêves raisonnables
De plaisir et d'amour ils se rendent coupables
Madame, au creux du même lit

Mais coupables jamais n'ont eu tant d'innocence
Aussi peu de regrets et tant d'insouciance
Qu'ils ne demandent même pas votre indulgence
Madame, pour leur tendre délit

Jusqu'au jour où peut-être, à la première larme
À la première peine d'amour et de femme
Il ne tiendra qu'à vous de sourire, Madame
Madame, pour qu'elle vous sourie,
Pour qu'elle vous sourie
YOUR DAUGHTER IS TWENTY YEARS OLD


Your daughter is twenty years old, how quickly time passes by!
Madam, only yesterday she was so little
And her first throes are your first wrinkles
Madam, and your first worries

Each of her twenty years counted twice for you
You already knew all that she discovers
You forgot the things that trouble her
Madam, and that troubled you, too

They thought she was pretty and now she's beautiful
For an individual nearly as young as she is
A boy who resembles the one for whom
Madam, you had become more beautiful

They build themselves a garden in a corner of weeds
Binding the flower of age in a superb bouquet
It's been a very long time since you've been sheaved.
Madam, springtime is forgetting about you

Each night that seems to you like any other night
While you dream your reasonable dreams
They're guilty of pleasure and love,
Madam, in the pit of the same bed

But culprits have never had so much innocence
So little regrets and so much light heartedness
That they don't even ask your indulgence
Madam, for their tender offense

Until the day when maybe for her first tear,
For her first heartsickness as a woman,
It'll be only up to you to smile, Madam
Madam, so that she will smile at you
So that she will smile at you.
Recording by Serge Reggiani
Recording by Georges Moustaki

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