Translated or adapted - I don't know where you draw the line between the two. It seems to me that for the French songs you have to adjust so much that it ends up more adaptation than translation. There's a great song called Les Louvres sont entres dans Paris by Serge Regghiani (well he sang it). It's on I've made a translation which turned into an adaptation, bringing it from Paris to London and so forth, and losing the direct symbolism of the wolves as Nazis - I did it because that week we had a wave of racist and homophobe bombing in London, and talk about some sinister group calling itself "the White Wolves". The Wolves