Original Title: "Grand Jacques (C'est trop facile)"
Year: 1954
It's too easy to enter churches
To pour out all our filth
In front of the parish priest who in the grey light
Closes the eyes so to better forgive us
Would you keep quiet Big Jack
What do you know of the Good Lord
A canticle an image
You don't know anything more of it
It's too easy when the wars are over
To go shout that it was the last one
Bourgeois friends how I envy you
So you don't see your own cemeteries
Would you keep quiet Big Jack
And let them shout so
Let them cry for joy
You who wasn't even a soldier
It's too easy when a love is dying
That it breaks in two because it has been bent too much
To go cry like men cry
As if love lasted forever
Would you keep quiet Big Jack
What do you know of love
Some blues eyes some crazy hair
You know nothing of it
And thus tell yourself Big Jack
And thus tell yourself Big Jack
Tell it often to yourself
It's too easy
It's too easy
To pretend
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