Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song

Subject: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 12:37 PM

If you haven't seen this movie, see it. It is in no actual language - most of the time - but what do the triplets (or their background vocalists) sing in their early days?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 12:46 PM

"The Belleville Rendez-vous"

(from http://www.chlotrudis.org/movies/reviews/2003/triplets.html)

From: The Triplettes of Belleville (2003)
Performed by: The Triplettes of Belleville cast
Composed by: Benoît Charest, (music); Sylvain Chomet, (lyrics)

English:

I won't finish my life in Timbuktu
Cheeks so tight my lips are turning blue
I'd like to be wrinkled
Utterly wrinkled
Wrinkled like a Triplet from Belleville

Don't want to wind my days in Acapulco
Stiff as a board dancing tango-tango
I'd love to be twisted
Utterly twisted
Twisted like a Triplet from Belleville
(Come on Girls!)

Refrain:
Swinging Belleville rendez-vous
Marathon dancing doop dee doop
Vaudou Cancan balais taboo
Au Belleville swinging rendez-vous

I won't be an old man in Singapore
Playing scrabble and eating petits-fours
I want to be wicked,
Utterly wicked,
Wicked like the Triplets from Belleville

I don't want to end my life in Honolulu
Singing like a bird in an ormolu
I want to be as rough
Every bit as rough
Rough, rough as a Triplet from Belleville

Refrain

I won't finish my days in Miami Beach
Sweating my heart stalking like an old bitch
I'd like to be flying (Hop!)
Utterly flying (Hop! Hop!)
Flying like a Triplet from Belleville

Don't mind ending my life in Katmandu
Signing with a sitar and a guru
But I'd prefer to be
Much prefer to be
Swinging with the Triplets from Belleville
(Come on Girls!)

Refrain + Solo + Refrain

French:

J'veux pas finir mes jours à Tombouctou
La peau tirée par des machines à clous
Moi je veux être fripée
Triplement fripée
Fripée comme une Triplette de belleville

J'veux pas finir ma vie à Acapulco
Danser toute raide avec des gigolos
Moi je veux être tordue
Triplement tordue
Balancée comme une Triplette de Belleville

Refrain:
Swinging Belleville rendez-vous
Marathon dancing doop dee doop
Vaudou Cancan balais taboo
Au Belleville swinging rendez-vous

J'veux pas finir ma vie à Singapour
Jouer au dico manger des petits fours
Moi j'veux être zidiote
Triplement zidiote
Gondolée comme une Triplette de Belleville

J'veux pas finir ma vie à Honolulu
Chanter comme un zoiseau ça n'se fait plus
Je veux ma voix brisée
Triplement brisée
Swinguer comme une Triplette de Belleville

Refrain

J'veux pas finir ma vie à Constantinople
C'est bien trop dur de faire des rimes en "nople"
Je veux être givrée (Hop!)
Triplement Givrée (Hop Hop!)
La quadrature des Triplettes de Belleville

J'pourrai finir ma vie à Katmandou
C'est bien plus doux de faire des rimes en "dou"
Mais je veux être givrée
Complètement Givrée
Et swinguer comme les Triplettes de Belleville
(Allez les filles!)

Refrain + Solo + Refrain

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:05 PM

You tube music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMzoNO3wdY4, originally found on the film's website.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:57 PM

Wow - I never even heard the verses, just the chorus. What do y'all think of the movie?

And thanks, of course, I should have expected even more info than I wanted...!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 03:11 AM

Thanks, Charlie. That song was a mystery to me. I really got a kick out of the movie - but nobody else in my family liked it.
Darn.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 04:16 AM

I loved the film from the start, its worth a few watchs to appreciate how well "sewn" together it is, The DVD came out with a sunday newspaper as a freebie last year. Its essential viewing for any manic cyclists that you might know Hi Ted

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 07:58 AM

Absolutely superb film. I particularly liked the stretch 2CV's the French gangsters drive around in. And in the scene where they are cycling up the mountain in the Tour you can actually feel the pain...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 07:59 AM

Oops, sorry - GUEST above was me. Must stop dunking my cookie in the coffee.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 09:12 AM

I loved the film. Catching all the obscure references and allusions, from Django Reinhardt and Josephine Baker to music concrete and Jacques Tati films, was a hoot. The music, from the theme song to Bach played on bicycle wheel spokes, was a charm. The inventive animation had me enthralled (I still remember the dog's dream sequence). And that theme song!

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Triplettes de Belleville Vaudeville Song
From: Alba
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 09:14 AM

The Film, for me, was brilliant. Clever.
I also LOVE the song "The Triplettes of Belleville". It's a sassy little number:)


Jude