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Thread #113361   Message #2410715
Posted By: Genie
11-Aug-08 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: songs about remembering
Subject: Lyr Add: NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN (from Edith Piaf
In addition to McCartney's "Yesterday," there's also an older song (from the first half of the 20th C.) titled "Yesterdays."

Then there's the one Roy Clark sang: "Yesterday When I Was Young."
Wasn't that originally a French song done by Charles Aznavour?

Speaking of French songs about reminiscing, there's Edith Piaf's "Le Vieux Piano" (The Old Piano), and I guess you could also include what in her later life sort of became her signature song:

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
(Charles Dumont/Michel Vaucaire
Non, rien de rien, (No, nothing at all)
Non, je ne regrette rien, (No, I regret nothing,)
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ni le mal - (Neither the good they've done to me nor the bad -)
Ça m'est bien égal. (It's all the same to me."
Non, rien de rien,
Non, je ne regrette rien.
C'est payé, balayé, oublié (It's paid for, swept away, forgotten)
Je me fous du passé! (I don't give a damn about the past!)

Avec mes souvenirs (With my memories)
J'ai allumé le feu, (I light the fire)
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs, (My problems, my pleasures,)
Je n'ai plus besoin. d'eux (I don't need them any more_
Balayés mes amours (My love affairs swept away)
Avec leurs trémolos (with their
Balayés pour toujours. (swept away forever.)
Je repars à zéro. (I'm starting again at zero.)

Non, rien de rien,
Non, je ne regrette rien,
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, ni le mal -
Tout ça m'est bien égal!
Non, rien de rien,
Non, je ne regrette rien,
Car ma vie (For my life,)
Car mes joies (for my joys)
Aujourd'hui (today)
Ça commence avec toi. (That begins with you.)